Clarke Recent News

Clarke Jacksonville received a generous gift from the Embraer Foundation. The funds will be used to purchase acoustic panels that will help minimize background noise, lower sound intensity and improve speech intelligibility in classrooms.

We are pleased to share that Meredith R. Frank, AuD, an audiologist at the Clarke Hearing Center in Northampton, MA, has recently published her research in The Hearing Review, a leading publication in the field of hearing health and audiology.

Clarke New York’s preschool families attended a musical performance of “The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses” thanks to a generous ticket donation from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Clarke’s Leadership Councils are coalitions of professionals committed to furthering Clarke’s mission.

Students in Clarke’s K-8 Program, co-located at Leeds Elementary School, have been enjoying a very special visitor this school year. Sunny, a three-year-old Labrador Retriever, has been coming to see the students in their classrooms as a “reading buddy.” A certified Bright Spot therapy dog, Sunny is trained to do an important job: She visits classrooms and curls up on the floor while children take turns reading her stories.

Meet Clarke alumna, playwright and Smith College student Emma O’Neill-Dietel.

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) convened thousands of professionals for their annual conference.

Clarke Northampton was the site of the Massachusetts State Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Stakeholder Meeting on October 29.

In a recent study conducted at the Florida Hospital for Children, and co-led by Linda Baumgartner, MS, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT, speech-language pathologist and auditory-verbal therapist at Clarke Jacksonville, preliminary findings suggest an improvement in hearing in children with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) treated with their own (autologous) umbilical cord blood cells.