Long Beach Center
The John Tracy Clinic Long Beach Center offers families living in the Long Beach, Orange County, Inland Empire and South Bay area diagnostic testing and educational services for children between birth and five years of age. Families whose children are identified with hearing loss may participate there in weekly parent-infant services and Tuesday Evening Parent Workshops and Support Groups. Long Beach Center families are also invited to join other families at JTC's Los Angeles campus for a weekly center-based program called Friday Family School and a four-day-a-week auditory-verbal Preschool Program. These services are provided at no charge. Services are offered in English and Spanish.
The JTC Long Beach Center is located at 740 E. Wardlow Road, Long Beach, CA 90807 (Map)
Services:
Diagnostic Hearing Evaluations
- John Tracy Clinic audiologists have special expertise in testing young children birth to age 5. Parents are given written reports that detail the results of the testing. If a hearing loss is identified, parents immediately meet with their audiologist and additional counseling or educational staff to explain the implications of the diagnosis and to offer possible continued support through JTC's Educational Services.
- Newborn Hearing Screening
- Hearing Screening (6mo.-5yrs.)
- Tympanometry
- Acoustic Reflexes
- Otoacoustic Emissions
- Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Natural Sleep
- Behavioral Observation Audiomentry (BOA)
- Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)
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Comprehensive audiological services include:
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We offer hearing evaluations for infants and children through age five years on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 pm. For appointments call: 562-426-2257.
Parent-Infant Services - Demo Home
In a comfortable homelike setting, an experienced teacher guides parents during individualized weekly appointments to use daily opportunities to encourage listening, language and speech development in their children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Contact Person: Mary Steinwinter, msteinwinter@jtc.org
Phone: (562) 426-2257
Parent Classes and Support Groups
Biweekly Tuesday evening adult education workshops and support groups are offered from September to May to families enrolled in JTC services and to interested parents. . Click here for calendar. 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Phone: (562) 426-2257
Center-based playgroups, parent education workshops and support groups are offered to families in the Parent-Infant Program weekly on Fridays in Los Angeles from September to May, 9:00 to 11:00 am.
Directions
From Downtown LA: Take the 110 (Harbor) Fwy South to the 405 (San Diego) Fwy South toward Long Beach. Pass the 710 (Long Beach) Fwy, exit Atlantic Ave. and turn Northbound (left) at the top of the ramp. At the second signal, Wardlow Road, turn right. The Clinic is on the right just before the second street which is Olive.
Long Beach Center History
In 1965, Mrs. Tracy, a true visionary and pioneer in the field of deaf education, wanted to make the free services at John Tracy Clinic (JTC) services available to more families who might not otherwise have been able to travel to the Los Angeles campus. JTC joined forces with the Children’s Benefit League in the Long Beach area to establish a satellite facility called the Long Beach Demonstration Home, where parents of young babies with hearing loss could learn how to encourage their child’s speech development in a cozy, homelike setting. A group of dedicated volunteers then came together to form the Long Beach League, a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting the facility and its free educational services. Since then the program has expanded to include evening parent education classes and audiology services.