Children's Hearing & Speech Centre of BC

We have been incredibly happy with the level of care that our hearing/visually impaired daughter has received while attending two years of preschool at CHSC. She started as one of the youngest children in her class as a December baby and has thrived, made incredible friendships and grown significantly both socially and academically. Anyone who is looking for experienced and thorough care and education for a hearing impaired child should seriously consider CHSC. Please feel free to reach out to me directly if you want to discuss it further.

Incredible team of dedicated and passionate professionals that was a game changer for our son's preschool experience in so many good ways - even though he is having moderately severe hearing loss, he was able to learn English as a second language and actively uses it now in his everyday preschool life. I would definitely recommend this unique preschool experience to every parent who want to put an emphasizes on their child's (with hearing loss, speech delay) spoken language development. I can't thank enough to the whole team of CHSC!

Great school. Passionate, highly skilled teachers and staff members. We are so glad we attended pre-k class. The program is very engaging - new theme to learn every month, new stations and activities to play with every week, amazing guests come to visit (police, firemen, construction workers, zoo). Neighborhood field trips and community engagement. Wonderful idea with activity and experience book - teachers wrote why a day was special, what they learned and they did it every day! On weekends family writes their experiences 👍🏻 Lots of activities to build independence and confidence during school hours (special helper roles, music class with performances, gym time and outside playground). I as a parent loved how development progress had been tracked and discussed, teachers and specialists went above and beyond. My daughter learned so many new skills - social, academic and advocacy. I will definitely recommend this school to any family with typical hearing or deaf/HH kids.

Our little one was diagnosed of Hard of hearing after birth, and 3 months later we were enrolled into the First Words program of the CHSC; The teachers and staff we have worked with are truly professionals, they know and have resources to support kids with Hard of hearing and the families, and they have been in the community for 60 years, with countless successful stories and experiences. Now we see our little one growing up through baby, toddler and now preschooler in the CHSC, the language skills, listening skills and most importantly, the ability to be self-advocacy that our little one has, makes us so much relieved, and we have less concerns of being mainstreamed into the public school system later. We highly recommend this school to the families who have kids with language delays and hard of hearing, because this is the place where your child will be well supported and trained, and your child will feel grateful for this journey when they look back.