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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 student is featured in St. Louis United Way campaign
September 07, 2011
CID and the United Way bring hope and help to Shayna and her family
ST. LOUIS, 9/1/11 The 2011 United Way campaign features Shayna, a profoundly deaf student at CID - Central Institute for the Deaf, as one of the individuals helped by the United Way. Shayna appears in ads, promotional spots and billboards cropping up in the St. Louis area and is featured on this year's United Way campaign video.
Please see the video here.
Shayna and her mom, Kelley
In August, Shayna joined her kindergarten classmates at CID for another year of learning speech, spoken language, listening, and literacy skills. She started at CID when she was a baby, receiving home visits from family center counselors at 18 months and attending the CID nursery class at 20 months. She recently turned 5. Here is her story.
Shayna was born with complications from a virus. At 17 months, she suffered acute ear infections that did not respond to medication. Her mom, Kelley, was already concerned that she had been able to say only three words. Lately, she had been using those words less and less.
Despite a doctor's admonition not to worry, she followed her instinct and drove her daughter in the snow to get her first hearing test. Later, an audiologist turned up the machine to 90 decibels - the equivalent of a police whistle - and Shayna didn't react at all. Kelley remembers the shock and wrenching uncertainty she felt about her little girl's future when she learned she was deaf.
Information referral led them to a tour of CID and Kelley said it felt like home. "CID was ready to take care of us," she said.
Two cochlear implants and 3+ years of individual attention from CID's team of teachers, audiologists and speech-language specialists later, Kelley is optimistic. She sees the enormous progress in her daughter as she watches her flourish in the limelight during the taping of media spots for the United Way.
"She just loves it," Kelley said, "and she loves CID."
"In the beginning, we felt so alone in our grief and isolation. The CID teachers have literally opened up Shayna's world. United Way helped them do that and provided a platform for our family to share what Shayna can do and all she will be able to accomplish."
As the United Way video and poster say, Shayna is a wonderfully typical child -- and "sometimes typical is amazing."
Thank you to Shayna and her family for sharing their incredible journey with CID and the United Way. CID receives United Way support every year and we are proud to be a member.
Please see the video here.
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