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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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Congratulations, CID graduates!
May 31, 2011
Eight children graduated from Central Institute for the Deaf
5/31/11 ST. LOUIS On Friday, May 27, 2011. eight school children graduated from CID - Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis, Missouri. The students are deaf or hard of hearing and learned to listen, talk and read at CID and are now prepared to attend their local schools alongside hearing children next fall.
The 2011 CID school graduates are: Kennedy Berghoff, age 5, Nico DelRosario, age 5, Whitney Garmon, age 12, Makayla Harris, age 6, Leila Houston, age 5, Kamond Rhodes, age 9, Terran Shaw, age 5, and Devin Whittington, age 11. Five live in St. Louis. The other three graduates are from Cahokia, Grafton and Highland, Illinois, respectively.
CID board or directors president C. Baker Cunningham, CID and executive director Robin M. Feder, MS, CFRE presided over the joyous ceremony, which featured children's performances, honors awards and a special speech from each of the eight graduates.
Multiple commencement speeches are a time-honored CID tradition, starting shortly after the school's founding in 1914 by Max Goldstein, MD, a renowned St. Louis ear doctor. Since then, most CID school graduates have gone to college -- and on to succeed in many walks of life, including business, finance, architecture, art, medicine, dentistry, science, education, public service and many other fields. Parents have brought their children from at least 33 countries so they could attend CID.
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