Impact of Support

Hearing loss is the nation’s #1 birth defect and can have devastating effects on language development.

Here’s what we know:

Hearing loss affects 14.9% of children in the United States[1]
Deaf children who do not learn to communicate orally graduate from high school with average reading skills ranging from a 2.8 to 4.5 grade level compared to a 10^th+ grade reading level for their oral counterparts[2]
37% of children with only minimal hearing loss fail at least one grade[3]

Here’s what we do:

The Center for Hearing and Speech has a 63-year history of providing identification and intervention services to children with hearing impairments. The Center remains the only comprehensive facility in Houston.
In 2009, CHS served 2,652 children from 185 ZIP Codes and 18 counties throughout Houston and Southeast Texas.
We continue to provide all services on a sliding scale to ensure care for all children regardless of their economic condition or health coverage.

Financial Information

The Center for Hearing in Speech employs rigorous standards to effectively steward the more than 2 million entrusted to us by our partners and donors. At least 80% of revenue goes directly to programs and services to identify and serve children with hearing impairments.

CHS Revenue and Expenses