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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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Four join CID board of directors
January 29, 2010
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, January 2010 – The CID – Central Institute for the Deaf board of directors has named four new members: Kayla L. Mays-Madkins, Theresa Secrest, Jeffrey R. Tucker and Jennifer A. Winfield. The board also acknowledged the contributions of Doris Blanchard, who retired in December 2009.
 | Kayla L. Mays-Madkins is president/CEO of Ability Building & Restoration LLC. She also serves on the boards of Habitat for Humanity, St. Louis University's John Cook School of Business Center for Entrepreneurship and the United Way Women’s Leadership Initiative. Her company is a St. Louis American/St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association Top 25 Regional Minority Business. |
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Theresa Secrest is a principal with Edward Jones. |
 | Jeffrey R. Tucker, a 1987 graduate of CID, is a lawyer at Bryan Cave, LLP in St. Louis. He also serves on the board of Starkloff Disability Institute and is a teacher in the Junior Achievement program. The St. Louis Business Journal named him one of the region’s “30 Under 30” future community leaders in 2007. |
 | Jennifer A. Winfield is Special Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri–St. Louis. |
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 | Doris Blanchard retired from the board in December 2009. Profoundly deaf since birth, she is a 1932 alumna of the CID school. She was a CID board member for 13 years. |
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