Company Profile
Central Institute for the Deaf
Company Overview
CID's mission is to teach children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing to listen, talk, read and succeed. We empower families and professionals in St. Louis and worldwide to help children achieve their fullest potential.
We offer educational opportunities and resources for children and families as well as professionals who serve children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing (deaf education and general education teachers, speech-language pathologists, auditory-verbal therapists, audiologists, program administrators, and others).
Company History
CID is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1914 by Max Aaron Goldstein, MD, a renowned St. Louis ear, nose and throat physician, who set out to do what most people believed impossible: teach deaf children to talk. During his postgraduate medical training in Europe, he had met a Viennese professor teaching deaf children to talk using “remnants” of hearing. This experience became the genesis for his dream to convince the world that congenitally deaf children could learn to listen and speak intelligibly.