Christine Clark, MAEd, CED has served as coordinator of the Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center at Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) since 1996 and has more than 20 years experience in the field of deaf education, specializing in the needs of deaf and hearing-impaired children and their families.

From 1981 to 1985, Ms. Clark was a classroom teacher of the deaf and a parent educator in the CID preschool-kindergarten and in 1990 she started teaching in family center nursery class. She entered the field in 1979 as a preschool teacher at the Utah School for the Deaf after receiving her undergraduate degree in deaf education/ elementary education from Fontbonne University in St. Louis. She holds a master’s degree in early childhood education from Maryville University in St. Louis (1999) and Missouri state certifications in early childhood special education and elementary deaf education (K–8). She is also certified by the national Council on Education of the Deaf.

Ms. Clark serves on the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS). As an instructor in this CID at Washington University School of Medicine program, she helps guide and develop curriculum for graduate students who will be future audiologists and teachers of the deaf. She is as a guest lecturer for various community agencies on early intervention with deaf and hard of hearing children and presents annual workshops for early intervention providers working with deaf and hard of hearing children age birth to 3. She has presented papers at meetings of the Council on Exceptional Children, the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the International Symposium on Childhood Deafness. 

314.977.0175
cclark@cid.edu