“When Heather Whitestone faced the media following her crowning as Miss America in September of 1994, she may have remembered the first time she stood in front of a large audience to speak. Like her fellow graduates honoring a school tradition, then the...
At 6 months old, Tommy Horejes was diagnosed profoundly deaf. His parents brought him to CID, where he spent 11 years learning to listen and talk. In 1990, Tommy graduated from CID and started classes in an elementary school with hearing students. Just a few weeks...
Jessica Nieva Whitehead’s eyes sparkle when she talks about her career as a dentist, the idea of helping people and about her time as a student at CID. Jessica graduated from the University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Dentistry in 2001, earning her BA in...
2017 CID graduate Jocelyn Westerfeld trained hard to earn her place on Team USA. When she and her family headed to Wales in October 2022 to participate in the WKU World Championship Karate Tournament, they didn’t know what to expect. Then the seventh-grader...
Peter came to CID shortly after his birth hospital indicated the need for further hearing testing. His initial diagnosis was moderate hearing impairment. CID audiologists fit him with hearing aids and began monitoring his hearing at 4 months of age. CID family center...
