School for deaf changes name, mission

[Miss-Delectable]

School for deaf changes name, mission | courier-journal | The Courier-Journal

The Louisville Deaf Oral School, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, has changed its name to the Heuser Hearing & Language Academy.

The school is merging boards with a sister organization, the Heuser Hearing Institute. The board includes representatives of the University of Louisville, Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare and Norton Healthcare.

At a news conference today at the school’s campus at 111-117 E. Kentucky St., officials said they are expanding their mission to provide medical assistance and treatment to children who have delayed speech and hearing development.

Previously, the mission focused primarily on providing services to deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

The hearing institute serves both children and adults, providing hearing tests, analysis and hearing-assistance devices. Treatment includes cochlear implants.

The school serves more than 100 children a year, about half of them pre-schoolers who attend the academy on a daily basis, said Executive Director Mona McCubbin. The school tries to mainstream the students into the public schools by the first or second grade, she said.

I wonder if those kids can pronounce the new name?

 

[jillio]

School for deaf changes name, mission | courier-journal | The Courier-Journal

The Louisville Deaf Oral School, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, has changed its name to the Heuser Hearing & Language Academy.

The school is merging boards with a sister organization, the Heuser Hearing Institute. The board includes representatives of the University of Louisville, Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare and Norton Healthcare.

At a news conference today at the school’s campus at 111-117 E. Kentucky St., officials said they are expanding their mission to provide medical assistance and treatment to children who have delayed speech and hearing development.

Previously, the mission focused primarily on providing services to deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

The hearing institute serves both children and adults, providing hearing tests, analysis and hearing-assistance devices. Treatment includes cochlear implants.

The school serves more than 100 children a year, about half of them pre-schoolers who attend the academy on a daily basis, said Executive Director Mona McCubbin. The school tries to mainstream the students into the public schools by the first or second grade, she said.

I wonder if those kids can pronounce the new name?

No Kidding! I find it very disturbing when the medical establishment takes over education. They may have changed their name to be less offensive, but the mission is still the same. Oral deaf.

 

[deafdyke]

You know........the connections between the medical industry and oral onlism are uncomfortably close to Big Pharma and the medical industry.

 

[shel90]

School for deaf changes name, mission | courier-journal | The Courier-Journal

The Louisville Deaf Oral School, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, has changed its name to the Heuser Hearing & Language Academy.

The school is merging boards with a sister organization, the Heuser Hearing Institute. The board includes representatives of the University of Louisville, Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare and Norton Healthcare.

At a news conference today at the school’s campus at 111-117 E. Kentucky St., officials said they are expanding their mission to provide medical assistance and treatment to children who have delayed speech and hearing development.

Previously, the mission focused primarily on providing services to deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

The hearing institute serves both children and adults, providing hearing tests, analysis and hearing-assistance devices. Treatment includes cochlear implants.

The school serves more than 100 children a year, about half of them pre-schoolers who attend the academy on a daily basis, said Executive Director Mona McCubbin. The school tries to mainstream the students into the public schools by the first or second grade, she said.

I wonder if those kids can pronounce the new name?

deaf children who dont have perfect speech need medical treatment? My god...this is sickening.

 

[NickCameron1031]

deaf children who dont have perfect speech need medical treatment? My god...this is sickening.

This is scary.

 

[KarissaMann05]

Sadly disturbing...

 

[newby722]

As someone who is familiar with this school, fyi: they changed the name so that they could start serving hearing children who have speech and language disorders as well as continuing to serve deaf and hard of hearing children. There are actually classes for signing children and oral children.