Hearing Speech & Deafness Center

Early childhood services: the nationally-renowned parent-infant program (pip) has been provided for over 60 years. This intervention program is oriented to children up to five years of age with communication challenges, hearing loss and secondary disabilities. Pip provides home visits, communications/learning development playgroups, parent support groups with a licensed family counselor, individual counseling sessions, sign language classes, and speech/language therapy. Audiology services are offered to children, aged birth to three years, with hearing loss, deafness or deaf-blindness. Rosen family pre-school is a pair of classrooms for children ages 1-3 and then 3-5 that emphasizes both american sign language (asl) and english, giving deaf or hard of hearing children the language foundation they need to succeed in school and later in life. The program is also open to hearing children who would benefit from an asl-friendly environment, such as those raised in a home that uses sign language.

Deaf services: this program provides advocacy services, information and referrals, training, education and support for individuals who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard of hearing. The program trains businesses, community groups, schools, local and state government agencies, landlords, and others in the community, on providing apprpriate accessibility and support for deaf and hard of hearing clients and customers. Through the seattle, tacoma, and bellingham offices, these services are provided to 13 counties in western washington. The bellingham office also provides a family program with sign language classes and communication strategies.