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About CID: CID school teachers use listening and spoken language to prepare children who are deaf and hard of hearing to participate and succeed in mainstream educational settings without the need for sign language. Pediatric audiology, teaching speech, language and academics, experiential learning, developing childhood and family literacy and fostering social skills and the development of the whole child are some areas of CID expertise responsible for our students' success.
In the 2008-2009 academic year, CID served more than 200 children, including 162 students birth to age 12 enrolled in the school. Students typically live in the St. Louis metropolitan area, southern Illinois and rural Missouri. From time to time, families move to St. Louis so their children can attend. CID students have come from 48 U.S. states and 28 other countries. Generous private scholarship support enables CID to turn away no child with hearing loss based on a family's inability to pay.
CID also offers a peer program integrating hearing preschoolers into classes with children who are deaf and hard of hearing, a summer program for hearing preschoolers with language delays, and educational materials, in-service training, consulting and continuing education workshops for professionals in deaf education, audiology and speech-language pathology.
CID helps prepare future teachers of the deaf and audiologists, offering practicum experiences for local university graduate students. CID teachers serve as faculty in the Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS). This program is closely affiliated with but financially independent from CID.
EDITOR'S NOTES:
CID was founded in 1914 by St. Louis doctor Max Goldstein, MD, as a place where teachers, parents and doctors would work together to help deaf children learn to talk. CID celebrated its 95th anniversary on September 23, 2009.
CID is located at 825 South Taylor Avenue, at the southern end of the Washington University Medical Center/Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis (63110). CID is a proud member of the United Way.
CID’s mission is to teach children who are deaf and hard of hearing to listen, talk, read and succeed. We partner with families and collaborate with universities, educators and other professionals worldwide to help children communicate to achieve their fullest potential.