Free Medical Clinics

The Center for Hearing and Speech teaches hearing-impaired children to communicate by speaking instead of using sign language. The Center is the only school in Houston to use this method and is one of only two in Texas. Founded in 1947 as the Houston School for Deaf Children, the Center changed its name in 1994 to reflect its broadened services for children with speech problems. Since its opening, the Center has provided intensive low-cost education, audiology, and speech pathology services to thousands of children and has offered community hearing health education to thousands more.

CHS provides services for children from infancy to age 18, as well as for their parents, within three areas: the Melinda Webb School, the Audiology Clinic, and the Speech-Language Pathology Clinic.  CHS's teachers, audiologists and speech pathologists use the latest technology and most up-to-date teaching techniques to help every child succeed and gain independence.