Established 1914 Executive Director Robin Feder Phone +1 314-977-0132 Founded 1914 | Principal Lynda Berkowitz Board President Scott Monette School district St. Louis | |
Type Listening and Spoken Language School for Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Address 825 S Taylor Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA Motto Where Children Learn to Listen, Talk, Read and Succeed Similar Bernard Becker Medical L, Program in Audiology and Com, Washingt University Program i, Center for Advanced Medicine, Washingt University School M | ||
Central institute for the deaf
Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) is a school for the deaf that teaches students using listening and spoken language, also known as the auditory-oral approach, to education. The school is located in St. Louis, Missouri. CID is an affiliate of Washington University in St. Louis.
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CID was founded by Max Aaron Goldstein in 1914, with a mission of teaching the deaf to talk. Goldstein built on techniques he had learned at the Vienna Polyclinic in Austria from Victor Urbantschisch regarding methods of teaching the deaf how to speak. Goldstien's plan was to have doctors and teachers at the institute work with parents to help their children speak and included the nation's first training program in auditory-oral deaf education for teachers.
After Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals was hit on the head with a baseball while trying to break up a double play in Game 4 of the 1934 World Series, Goldstein arranged for Dean to have a hearing test at the institute.
Hallowell Davis came to St. Louis from Harvard Medical School and was the institute's director of research. Some of his early work there was done on behalf of the Veterans Administration, developing improved hearing aids for those who had suffered hearing loss in combat.
In September 2003 in the wake of financial difficulties, Washington University in St. Louis acquired the institute's research division, formalizing a connection between the two institutions which had been longtime collaborators on research and education related to the deaf.