Speech & Hearing Center Of The Midsouth

Memphis oral school for the deaf (mosd) offers an early intervention educational preschool for students five days a week. It emphasizes individual progress in speech and auditory skills from ages 2 to 6. It empowers children with hearing loss or hard of hearing who rely on assistive listening devices to have equal access to communication. The preschool is an eleven (11) month program that provides a comprehensive approach to enhance their learning through listening and spoken language (lsl) to help the children maintain and develop the skills needed to achieve their full potential. The school annually serves approximately 30 students in an academic year.

The speech & hearing center of the midsouth provides community speech therapy and audiological services in a traditional clinical setting. Services are extended to those attending the mosd early intervention educational preschool program on a weekly basis while the student is attending classes and those enrolled in the developmental therapy as outside clients. One unique clinical program, the sound beginnings program, is designed to offer one-on-one speech therapy for children with a parent education and training component to enhance child language and parent training development. This program is a building block to enrollment into the sound transition program. The sound beginnings clinical program provided services for approximately 40 clients in 2023-2024. Families in mosd's other programs utilize the center's providers annually as part of their enrolled students' individualized family service plan (ifsp) goals. Additionally, the speech-language pathologists conduct speech evaluations in company, with the audiologists providing cochlear mapping and hearing aid adjustments. Additionally, we outsource our services to partner schools in shelby county, and we currently have one speech-language pathologist from our center who managed a caseload of approximately 40 students who required speech therapy from lausanne collegiate school.

Lastly, during the year, including the population from mosd's programs, the speech & hearing center served approximately 550 residents in the mid-south.