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Awards |
One of Eleven Most Enhanced Sites from the Landmarks Association of St. Louis, Impact on Learning Award from School Planning and Management, Focus St. Louis "What's Right With the Region!" Award (2006) |
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Special features |
special education program, nonprofit, before- and after- school care |
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Gender composition |
coed |
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Dress code |
No dress code |
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School Mission
- Our mission is to teach children who are deaf and hard of hearing to listen, talk, read and succeed. We partner with families and collaborate with universities, educators and other professionals worldwide to help children communicate to achieve their fullest potential.
Our mission begins with the children in the CID auditory-oral school, who benefit from our proven, assessment-and ability-based teaching methods combined with the latest from mainstream education, from birth to age 12.
CID's highly skilled, master's level teachers of the deaf emphasize speech, language and listening instruction throughout the curriculum. Literacy, social and academic preparation are also at the heart of our work to prepare children to participate in mainstream classrooms.
| Curriculum |
- Special education programs designed specifically for students with deafness, hearing impairments and language or speech impairment.
- This school requires physical education class.
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Instructional Program Highlights
- The Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center provides crucial support and education for families and their hearing-impaired babies birth-3. Home visits for babies, nursery class, age 2.
- The CID preschool-kindergarten offers a dynamic curriculum for 3- to 5-year-olds fostering emerging literacy, pre-academics, social skills and the whole child.
- The CID primary school offers a mainstream academic curriculum including classes in art, music, computers, physical education and social skills.
- Our master teachers weave speech, language and listening instruction throughout the students' classes and activities.
| Activities and Sports |
- Girls sports: basketball, soccer and tennis.
- Boys sports: basketball, soccer and tennis.
- Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: field trips, ages 5-12; guest speakers and panels, ages 5-12 and for parents; photography, ages 6-12; parent organization; summer sessions, ages 3-12 and recreational basketball team with hearing children, ages 6-12.
- This school has the following art(s) programs: photography, music and creative movement.
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Parent and Community Support
- We encourage parents to be fully involved with our teachers, speech therapists and audiologists as an integral member of their child's educational team. All nursery school classrooms have one-way observation rooms for parents.
We offer regular social and educational opportunities for parents and families. The CID Parent Organization also sponsors events and activities.
Other news or notes
- We turn no hearing-impaired child away for financial reasons.
On-site school nurse, school counselor, pediatric audiology, speech-language pathology and occupational therapy
4-1 student-teacher ratio
Free loaner hearing aid program
SmartBoard in every primary classroom
Preschool peer program
Staff are faculty in the deaf education/audiology programs at Washington University School of Medicine.
| Technology and Facilities |
- 5 students per computer.
- 100% of classrooms are connected to the Internet.
- This school offers wireless internet (wi-fi) access to students.
- This school was established before 1920.
- No transportation is provided to this school.
- This school was built in 2000.
- Recent or upcoming renovations: All new facilities in 2000, built from the ground up to exceed "quiet school" specifications of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
- Gymnasium and physical education facilities: Regulation size gymnasium plus a dedicated music/creative movement room for the younger children.
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Measures used to evaluate applicants: interview.
- To evaluate applicants, this school also uses: hearing, speech and language assessments.
- Standardized tests used to evaluate applicants: hearing, speech and language assessments.
- Of the students who applied for admission to this school for the current school year, 81-100% were accepted.
- Tuition: over $20,000
- 81-100% of students receive financial aid to attend this school.
- Continuing generous support from the community enables CID to turn away no eligible hearing-impaired child because of a family's financial circumstances. Substantial scholarship support is available.
- Graduates typically go to: mainstream elementary schools in their communities.
- Students at this school enroll by: They are referred by hospitals or apply directly.
- Few of the students at this school come from the neighborhood where the school is located.
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| Safety, Discipline and Support |
- Safety and discipline-related resources include: Security guard(s) (full or part-time). Other safety and discipline-related resources include: 24-hour locked doors, identity swipe cards, regular safety and emergency planning, access to campus security.
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| Other Features and Highlights |
- This school has an emphasis in: speech, language, listening and literacy.
- Regular classroom hours: 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- Accredited by Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in 2007.
- Accredited by Missouri First Steps and Illinois Child and Family Connections Provider; approved Parents as Teachers site in 2007.
- Principal has been at this school for 10 years.
- Principal has 20 years of experience.
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Volunteer requests
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Category: arts/other enrichment
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Description: Share a book with our students and get to know them.
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- Contact name: Tracy Kodner
- Contact phone: 314/977-0220
- Contact email: tkodner@cid.edu
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Category: office and administration
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Description: Get on our office volunteer list!
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- Contact name: Tracy Kodner
- Contact phone: 314/977-0220
- Contact email: tkodner@cid.edu
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Donation requests
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Category: fundraisers/special events
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Description: CID annual fundraiser, the Ultimate Picnic, held in May
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- Contact name: Bree DeGraw
- Contact phone: 314/977-0163
- Contact email: bdegraw@cid.edu
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Description: Please donate at our web site, http://cid.edu
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- Contact name: Bree DeGraw
- Contact phone: 314/977-0163
- Contact email: bdegraw@cid.edu
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| Source of Data |
Additional information, including curriculum and special programs, was either submitted to GreatSchools by a school official or comes directly from the school or school district's Web site. This page was last updated on 01/09/2008. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.
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