“We empower Alabama’s infants and children with hearing loss, speech, language, and communication delays to reach their fullest potential. We understand that children with communication needs are best served when their families are engaged, educated, and intentional in promoting their child’s development. We guide families on their journey, cultivating their understanding of their child’s needs and building their capacities for addressing those needs in family-focused ways. Not only are WISE families guided by Alabama professionals with unparalleled expertise in the Listening & Spoken Language (LSL) communication mode, we also connect them to a larger community of people, who like them, have faced the challenges pediatric hearing loss, speech, language, and communication delays but are farther along on the journey. Our programs are specifically designed to empower families toward resiliency and joy.”
○ Grades: Early Intervention and Preschool For over a decade, Woolley Institute for Spoken-Language Education (WISE) has educated, supported and empowered families and their children who are deaf or hard of hearing, children who have speech and language delays and children who have typical hearing and speech. “Being able to work with families at a critical time in their child’s life and provide them with support and expertise so they can help their child succeed is a privilege,” Executive...
BY INGRID SCHNADER NOVEMBER 25, 2020 1:11 PM The Woolley Institute for Spoken- Language Education (WISE) is a place of hope for deaf children or children with hearing loss. WISE helps prepare students to attend mainstream schools, like those in Homewood and Mountain Brook. The nonprofit Woolley Institute for Spoken-Language Education, or WISE, located at Shades Valley Presbyterian Church (SVPC), is a place of hope for deaf children or children with hearing loss and their families. WISE classes...
BY Sam Chandler | Published by Village Living on October 17th, 2019 Sandy King reads to a group of children at the Woolley Institute for Spoken-Language Education at Shades Valley Presbyterian Church. The Woolley Institute for Spoken-Language Education, and it teaches children who are deaf or hard of hearing to talk. You wouldn’t know it was there. Not if you were driving along Montevallo Road into Mountain Brook Village or zipping downtown along U.S. 280. But tucked away in the back corner of...
Article By Emily Williams | Published In OTMJ on February 5th, 2020 According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, roughly one in 1,000 children are born deaf. “In Alabama, that’s going to be about 30 to 40 kids, because there are about 30,000 to 40,000 live births a year,” said Dr. Audie Woolley, chief of pediatric otolaryngology at Children’s of Alabama. Many of those babies end up at the Children’s Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program, started by Woolley in...
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