The Learning Center for the Deaf has recently launched a capital campaign to enhance our ability to serve deaf and hard of hearing children.  For nearly 40 years, the Learning Center has been nationally recognized for our academic excellence and innovative practices.  Our capacity to respond to advances in research and technology has resulted in significant growth of our student population, particularly among very young children.

We need to build a new building on the site of what we call The Barn. Our structural and architectural studies tell us renovation would be far more costly than new construction. This could bring our Parent Infant Program and our Early Childhood Program under one new roof and provide much-needed space for therapy rooms and language modeling with all our young children in close proximity. This younger student population has doubled in recent years and our ability to give these children and their parents a solid sign language foundation is essential to their later success. With a large new building, we won’t have to turn away the growing number of new referrals and legacies from Deaf parents who also learned here. With your help, we won’t have to consider such a devastating rejection.

In addition, the new building will house a state-of-the art Library and Media Center. Our current Library is overflowing with students and over-stuffed shelves. The new Library will have more web-based materials and more places for our basic collections, private study areas, group work and after-school computer stations, especially important for our residential students.

With your support, The Learning Center for the Deaf will redesign and renovate the spaces we have outgrown and build new ones to accommodate our community’s expanding needs. With your help, TLC will grow and thrive and get bigger and better.

For more information about the campaign or for a tour, please contact: Arlene Treacy-Montgomery, Director of Development at 508.879.5110, x352 or arlene_tm@tlcdeaf.org.