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About CID: At CID, a multidisciplinary team of teachers, pediatric audiologists and speech-language pathologists use listening and spoken language to prepare children who are deaf and hard of hearing to participate and succeed without the need for sign language. Generous private scholarship support enables CID to turn away no child with hearing loss based on a family's inability to pay.
Students typically live in the St. Louis metropolitan area, southern Illinois and rural Missouri. CID students have come from 48 U.S. states and 28 other countries.
CID provides continuing education workshops and curricula for professionals in deaf education, audiology and speech-language pathology. CID also offers guided observations, consultation models and in-service training for public and private schools and school districts who serve children who use cochlear implants and hearing aids. 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, in rooms above his medical offices on Vandeventer Avenue. He envisioned a place where teachers, parents and doctors would work together to help deaf children learn to listen, talk and achieve independence. The science and profession of audiology were developed at CID along with successful methods and practices for teaching children listening, spoken language and literacy skills.
CID has been located at the southern end of the Washington University Medical Center/Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis since 1916. CID is a proud member of the United Way.
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CID students graduate in shared ceremony
May 21, 2010
CID graduates share ceremony with future teachers and audiologists, graduates of WUSM PACS program
Friday, MAY 21. 2010, ST. LOUIS, MO - The Classes of 2010 at CID - Central Institute for the Deaf and the Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS) held a shared recognition ceremony on Friday.
The CID school children graduated alongside professionals earning their master’s degrees in deaf education (MSDE) and clinical doctoral degrees in audiology (AuD) from the CID-affiliated Washington University School of Medicine PACS graduate programs. This joint commencement ceremony is a unique and longstanding St. Louis tradition.
Participants were nine deaf or hard of hearing children, ages 5–10, eight Master of Science in Deaf Education (MSDE) candidates and 14 Doctor of Audiology (AuD) candidates.
Each child presented a short speech. These children have worked hard and their families have sacrificed so they could learn to communicate without the use of sign language. They are ready to learn and achieve alongside hearing classmates in their neighborhood schools in the fall.
The CID school graduates are: Malakai Askew, age 7, Addison Fenneberg, age 5, Travion Ferguson, age 5, Avani Shandilya, age 7, Bailey Skultety, age 9, Daijah Stayton, age 7, Nia Whitehead, age 10, and Jacob and James Williams, age 6.
C. Baker Cunningham, treasurer of the CID board of directors, presented opening remarks. Lynda Berkowitz, MS, AVEd Cert LSLS, CED, and Barb Lanfer, MAEd, CED, CID school principals, presented the CID graduates. William W. Clark, PhD, professor and director, PACS, Heather Hayes, PhD, assistant professor and director of deaf education studies, and L. Maureen Valente, PhD, assistant professor and director of audiology studies presented the WU graduates.
CID was founded in 1914 by St. Louis otologist Max A. Goldstein, MD.
CID is a financially independent affiliate of Washington University.
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