In 2025 at Washington University in St. Louis, Heather Grantham, PhD, executive director of CID – Central Institute for the Deaf, delivered a TEDxWUSTL Talk about how babies with cochlear implants learn listening, spoken language and literacy. Watch it at...
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...
In 2009, Dave and Ellen Singh adopted a 5-year-old from India. Although he had been attending a school, the boy they called Deelip had no words, no signs, no way to communicate beyond using gestures. At the orphanage, he wore an antiquated body-worn hearing aid...
