Lexington Hearing & Speech Center (LHSC) is celebrating 55 years of providing early educational, hearing and speech services to infants, children and adults throughout Kentucky. This nonprofit Center began as a preschool for deaf and hard of hearing children focusing on spoken language and the mission has evolved to teaching children with hearing, speech and language impairments to listen and talk.
LHSC’s goal is for children to receive early therapeutic and educational intervention, so they can mainstream into their neighborhood public or private school by first grade. Today, the Early Learning Center at LHSC provides a language-enriched early education program for children from birth to age 7 with hearing, speech and language impairments, as well as children without special needs, which includes a full-day kindergarten classroom.
Through the LHSC Audiology and Speech Programs, infants and children have access to early identification of hearing loss, speech therapy services and complete, on-site hearing services. Audiologists program and dispense hearing aids to children and adults in the community and staff members participate in the Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation Team, which has been in existence since 1990.
LHSC has grown into an established community agency serving individuals from over 76 Kentucky counties. As LHSC continues to grow, we are honored to partner with BIM for our employee benefits. BIM provides comfort and stellar service and continually supports our journey in making the best decisions for our employees and their families.