Clarke Recent News

You’re Invited! Listening and Spoken Language Boot Camp is presented by Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech and designed to support families in Central Florida from coast to coast who have children who are deaf or hard of hearing ages birth to 5. This event will focus on parent education with listening and spoken language techniques and classroom activities and auditory-based speech sessions for the children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The event is free for families to participate. Activities will be provided for siblings on Saturday.

The purpose of the Coalition for Global Hearing Health is to advocate for effective hearing health services and policies, to equip and empower hearing healthcare professionals, families, educators, communities and those with hearing loss, and to encourage and perpetuate best practices.

On Wednesday, October 23, 2019, the Landon family of West Springfield, MA, presented a $25,000 check to Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech for the “I Can Hear You Now” Fund, established in memory of their daughter Tammy Jacobson-Landon.

Join Clarke and hundreds of schools across the country in celebrating National Bullying Prevention Month this October!

Congratulations to Janice C. Gatty, EdD., director of Child & Family Services at Clarke Northampton!

Heather Stinson, a Clarke itinerant teacher of the deaf, shares her take on the question: When do you feel most frustrated in the classroom and how do you handle it?

Ally graduated from Clarke’s K-8 Program in June.

Ally, a recent graduate of Clarke’s K-8 Program in Northampton, MA, is a philanthropically-minded, award-winning student who begins classes as a mainstream student at Hampshire Regional High School this fall.

Augustin, a recent Clarke graduate, shares his listening and spoken language journey with the Boston Herald as the newspaper explores why more children who are deaf or hard of hearing are transitioning to mainstream schools.