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DIRECTORY of Services• PennsylvaniaCenter for Childhood Communicationat The Children’s Hospital ofPhiladelphia, 3405 Civic Center Boulevard,Philadelphia 19104 • (800) 551-5480 (voice)• (215) 590-5641 (fax) • www.chop.edu/ccc (website). The CCC provides Audiology,Speech-Language and Cochlear Implant servicesand offers support through CATIPIHLER, aninterdisciplinary program including mental healthand educational services for children with hearingloss and their families from time of diagnosisthrough transition into school-aged services. Inaddition to serving families at our main campusin Philadelphia, satellite offices are located inBucks County, Exton, King of Prussia, andSpringfield, PA and in Voorhees, Mays Landing,and Princeton, NJ. Professional Preparation inCochlear Implants (PPCI), a continuing educationtraining program for teachers and speech-languagepathologists, is also headquartered at the CCC.Clarke Schools for Hearing andSpeech/Pennsylvania, 455 South RobertsRoad, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 • 610-525-9600(voice/tty). info@clarkeschools.org • www.clarkeschools.org. Judith Sexton, MS, CED,LSLS Cert AVEd, Director. A member of theOption Schools network, Clarke Schools forHearing and Speech provides children who aredeaf and hard of hearing with the listening,learning and spoken language skills they needto succeed. Comprehensive listening and spokenlanguage programs prepare students for success inmainstream schools. Locations in Bryn Mawr andPhiladelphia.Services include early intervention, preschool,parent education, individual auditory speech andlanguage services, cochlear implant habilitationfor children and adults, audiological services,and mainstream services including itinerantteaching and consulting. Specially trainedstaff includes LSLS Cert. AVEd and LSL Cert.AVT professionals, teachers of the deaf, specialeducators, speech language pathologists and a staffaudiologist.Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech haslocations in Boston, Bryn Mawr, Jacksonville,New York City, Northampton and Philadelphia.Delaware County IntermediateUnit # 25, Hearing and LanguagePrograms, 200 Yale Avenue, Morton, PA19070 • 610-938-9000, ext. 2277, 610-938-9886(fax) • sdoyle@dciu.org • Program Highlights:A publicly funded program for children withhearing loss in local schools. Serving childrenfrom birth through 21 years of age. Teachersof the deaf provide resource room support anditinerant hearing therapy throughout DelawareCounty, PA. Services also include audiology,speech therapy, cochlear implant habilitation(which includes LSLS Cert. AVT and LSLSCert. AVEd), psychology and social work.DePaul School for Hearing andSpeech, 6202 Alder Street, Pittsburgh,PA 15206 • 412-924-1012 (voice) • 412-924-1036 (fax) • www.speakmiracles.org(website) • ll@depaulinst.com (email) • LillianRountree Lippencott, Director of Outreach &Development. As western Pennsylvania’s onlyauditory-oral school for children who are deafor hard of hearing, DePaul School providesListening and Spoken Language (LSL) educationto children in Pennsylvania, and from Ohioand West Virginia. A State Approved PrivateSchool, most programs are tuition-free toapproved students. DePaul School providesearly intervention services for children (birthto age 5); a center-based toddler program (ages18-36 months); a preschool program (ages 3-5)and a comprehensive academic program gradesK-8. DePaul School provides clinical servicesincluding audiology, Auditory-Verbal andspeech therapy, cochlear implant MAPping andhabilitation, physical and occupational therapy,mainstreaming support and parent educationand support programs. Most children whoparticipate in DePaul School’s early interventionprograms gain the listening and spoken languageskills needed to succeed and transition totheir neighborhood schools by first grade.• South CarolinaThe University of South CarolinaSpeech and Hearing ResearchCenter, 1601 St. Julian Place, Columbia,SC, 29204 • (803) 777-2614 (voice) • (803)253-4143 (fax) • Center Director: DanielleVarnedoe, daniell@mailbox.sc.edu. The centerprovides audiology services, speech-languagetherapy, adult aural (re)habilitation therapy,and Auditory-Verbal Therapy. Our audiologyservices include comprehensive diagnosticevaluations, hearing aid evaluations andservices, and cochlear implant evaluations andprogramming. The University also provides atraining program for AV therapy and cochlearimplant management for professional/universitystudents. Additional contacts for the AVT orCI programs include Wendy Potts, CI ProgramCoordinator (803-777-2642), Melissa Hall (803-777-1698), Nikki Herrod-Burrows (803-777-2669), Gina Crosby-Quinatoa (803) 777-2671,and Jamy Claire Archer (803-777-1734).• TennesseeMemphis Oral School for the Deaf,7901 Poplar Avenue, Germantown, TN 38138• 901-758-2228 (voice) • 901-531-6735 (fax)• www.mosdkids.org (website) • tschwarz@mosdkids.org (email). Teresa Schwartz, ExecutiveDirector. Services: Family Training Program(birth-age 3), Auditory/Oral Day School(ages 2-6), Audiological Testing, Hearing AidProgramming, Cochlear Implant Mappingand Therapy, Aural (Re)Habilitation, Speech-Language Therapy, Mainstream Service.Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center- National Center for ChildhoodDeafness and Family Communication,Medical Center East South Tower, 1215 21stAvenue South, Nashville, TN 37232-8718 • 615-936-5000 (voice) • 615-936-1225 (fax) • nccdfc@vanderbilt.edu (email) • www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/VanderbiltBillWilkersonCenter (web).Tamala Bradham, Ph.D., Associate Directorin Clinical Services. The NCCDFC ServiceDivision is an auditory learning program servingchildren with hearing loss from birth through21 years. Services include educational servicesat the Mama Lere Hearing School at Vanderbiltas well as audiological and speech-languagepathology services. Specifically, services includesaudiological evaluations, hearing aid services,cochlear implant evaluations and programming,speech, language, and listening therapy,educational assessments, parent-infant program,toddler program, all day preschool throughkindergarten educational program, itinerant/academic tutoring services, parent supportgroups, and summer enrichment programs.• TexasCallier Center for CommunicationDisorders/UT Dallas - Callier-DallasFacility 1966 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX,75235 • 214-905-3000 (voice) • 214-905-3012(TDD) • Callier-Richardson Facility: 811Synergy Park Blvd., Richardson, TX, 75080 •972-883-3630 (voice) • 972-883-3605 (TDD)• cpiloto@utdallas.edu (e-mail) • www.callier.utdallas.edu (website). Nonprofit Organization,hearing evaluations, hearing aid dispensing,assistive devices, cochlear implant evaluations,psychology services, speech-language pathologyservices, child development program forchildren ages six weeks to five years.The Center for Hearing and Speech,3636 West Dallas, Houston, TX 77019 • 713-523-3633 (voice) • 713-874-1173 (TTY) • 713-523-8399 (fax) - info@centerhearingandspeech.org (email) www.centerhearingandspeech.org(website) CHS serves children with hearingimpairments from birth to 18 years. Servicesinclude: auditory/oral preschool; Audiology Clinicproviding comprehensive hearing evaluations,diagnostic ABR, hearing aid and FM evaluationsand fittings, cochlear implant evaluations andfollow-up mapping; Speech-Language PathologyClinic providing Parent-Infant therapy, Auditory-Verbal therapy, aural(re) habilitation; familysupport services. All services offered on slidingfee scale and many services offered in Spanish.VOLTA VOICES • MARCH/APRIL 2013 45