Parents learn to encourage listening, language, and speech with information from JTC's Worldwide Education.
You can learn to encourage listening, language, and speech from anywhere in the world.
Parent Education
Parents learn to encourage listening, language, and speech with information from JTC's Worldwide Education.
Parent Education
You can learn to encourage listening, language, and speech from anywhere in the world.
Parents learn to encourage listening, language, and speech with information from JTC's Worldwide Education.
Parent Education
You can learn to encourage listening, language, and speech from anywhere in the world.
93% of children in our Parent-infant program demonstrate progress in Listening and Spoken Language skills
100% of our preschoolers demonstrate progress in Listening and Spoken Language skills
Our Services
Newborns to 18 years
Audiology
Our pediatric audiologists offer an extensive range of diagnostic hearing services and recommendations for children of all ages, from newborns to the age of 18 years.
Audiology
Our pediatric audiologists offer an extensive range of diagnostic hearing service
Parent-Infant Program
Families of newly diagnosed infants and toddlers navigate the initial stages of early-intervention, receive coaching to build their child's communication in everyday routines, attend support groups and parent workshops.
Parent-Infant Program
Families of newly diagnosed infants and toddlers navigate the initial stages of early-intervention
Worldwide Parent Education
& International Sessions (summer)
Parents anywhere in the world participate in virtual, online or mail-based experiences. Each year, parents across the globe apply to come to Los Angeles to learn to promote the abilities of their child and become their best advocates.
Parent Education Worldwide plus International Sessions (Summer)
Parents anywhere in the world can take part as a virtual online or mail-based experience.
Counseling & Child Development
Parents are offered virtual and in person counseling, support groups, mentoring, and parenting guidance. Children receive developmental screens and counseling.
Counseling & Child Development
Parents are offered virtual and in-person counseling and support groups.
Preschool
Our preschool enrolls children with hearing loss and their hearing peers. Credentialed teachers with master's degrees enhance listening, language, pre-literacy, social, emotional, and cognitive skills in stimulating activities.
Preschool
Our preschool enrolls children with hearing loss and their hearing peers.
Listening & Spoken Language
LSL Experts trained to maximize each child's listening, speech and language potential coach and guide families with listening and spoken language strategies in a fun and meaningful therapy sessions.
Listening & Spoken Language
LSL Experts trained to maximize each child's listening, speech, and language potential
Speech & Language Pathology (SLP)
Specially trained SLPs provide therapy for children of all ages. Therapy needs may range and can cover communication, articulation, voice quality, understanding words, putting words together, social skills, and feeding skills.
Speech & Language Pathology (SLP)
Specially trained SLPs provide therapy for children of all ages.
Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) - Mainstream Support
Itinerant DHH teachers provide support to both the child and mainstream teachers. Services incorporate strategies to enhance communication, social skills, listening, language, and advocacy skills.
Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH)
Itinerant DHH teachers provide support to both the child and mainstream teachers.
Master's Program
Education Specialist: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher Preparation Program and Master of Science in Deaf Education in partnership with Mount Saint Mary's University.
Master's Program
Education Specialist: Dear and Hard of Hearing Teacher Preparation Program
Parent Resources
Dozens of topics explaining hearing loss, family activities, listening/language/speech and education. Read online, click an option for printer friendly handouts to keep or share. Choose to obtain a Spanish version.
We Make an Impact
Before embarking on their path, families fear that their child will be isolated and unable to learn and grow among their hearing peers. As they journey through John Tracy Center's services, both parent and child gain skills, and confidence.
Our Alumni
Summer Session Program – Brittany Letter to JTC
My son Daniel was 2 ½ years old when he was diagnosed with bilateral moderate to severe hearing loss. It came as a shock to me and my husband, but it also answered a lot of questions – why he was wasn’t a It is my great pleasure to share my personal story with the…
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Emily Khuong
Emily and her family participated in JTC’s International summer session program. Recently, Emily reached out to let us know of all the amazing things she has been up to since her time at JTC. The Gold Award is the highest honor a girl scout can earn and involves undertaking a service project with a long-lasting impact on the…
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Samantha Chavez
Samantha is a charming 12-year-old girl with bilateral hearing loss who loves school and playing sports. Samantha was diagnosed profoundly deaf at birth after failing her hearing screening test three times. Samantha received her first cochlear implant when she was just a year old and her second at age five. We started to attend JTC…
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Connor Silver
Born in California in1999, when hearing tests were optional for a newborn, Connor Silver’s parents were told he was in perfect health. As the months passed, though, the signs pointed to the fact that something was not right with his hearing. It was not until he was two years old he was diagnosed with a severe…
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John Butchko
I didn’t speak for the first year and a half of my life. In fact, I didn’t really make any sounds at all like a usual baby. The fact that I didn’t babble was one of few hints to my parents that I had a hearing loss. The most I would do was squawk, a…
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Wendy Vincent
“The State Department has given me opportunities to learn new languages,” she says. “JTC made language learning possible… I transferred the skills to other languages!” After doing tutors in Tel Aviv, Paris, Budapest, Washington, Kuala Lumpur, and now Rio, Wendy is preparing to retire in Los Angeles, where she was “born and raised”. Wendy hopes…
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Renee Polanco Lucero
An alum of our Parent-Infant program, Renee Polanco Lucero, Ph.D., LSLS Cert., AVEd, has a hearing loss since birth and is bimodal, using a hearing aid in her left ear and a cochlear implant in her right ear. Renee earned her master’s degree in JTC’s graduate program and her Ph.D. in special Education, as well…
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Sara Cooper
Gina Cooper was looking for answers when she made the journey from British Columbia to Los Angeles with her daughter Sara to attend JTC’s International Summer Sessions in 2014. She recalls how full of anxiety she was, and how “nerve-wracking” it felt to prepare a child with hearing loss for the school system. “The choices…
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Cindy & Erika McGrath
Cindy’s daughter Erika was born 1998, just one month after California passed law requiring newborns to be screened for hearing loss. After Erika failed her screening, an audiologist referred the family to John Tracy Center. In JTC’s Parent-Infant Program, Cindy’s family learned the importance of talking while playing. But while they sang songs, read books…
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Krysta & John
On June 8th, 2014, they got married in the place that had brought them together and given them “everything they needed to succeed in life – and exchanged vows in the courtyard at John Tracy Center.” This spring, they welcomed their first son into the world. Their growing family looks forward to exploring “new horizons”…
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Nathan Sevigny
“The other day, I came across an old brochure that I hadn’t seen in years. I recognized it instantly because that’s me on the cover. My parents were quite proud that I had been selected to be on the cover. “But I guess I got to say ‘thanks.’ All throughout my life, I get compliments…
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Justin Morreale
Justin was diagnosed with a bilateral profound hearing loss at eighteen months old; he received cochlear implants at ages two and five. Soon after his diagnosis, his parents helped him learn to listen and talk through empowering coaching sessions in JTC’s Parent-Infant program. Justin then attended JTC’s onsite preschool program.“ John Tracy helped him develop…
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Sonya
More than 20 years ago, JTC alum Sonya and her family participated in our on-site preschool and parent-centered services. Today, Sonya is pursuing a medical degree and preparing to begin residency.“I saw how physicians were able to help to make my life a lot easier,” she says. “My hearing loss definitely played a huge role…
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Samantha Fuji
JTC Alumna Samantha Fujii has been selected as one of 10 swimmers to represent the USA at the 2019 World Deaf Championship Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil in August 2019! With the rest of her Team USA athletes, who range in age from 13 to 23 and come from 10 states across the U.S., Sammy will compete…
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Silvia
After participating in JTC’s Preschool International Session last year, alumni parent Silvia recounted her experience in a parent publication in Spain, describing the knowledge and skills that she and her family gained. “This trip has changed our lives forever,” she wrote, “not only because of the thousands of unforgettable moments we have lived, nor because of the…
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Cindy McGrath
Meet Cindy McGrath! She is JTC’s first Alumni Ambassador. Her family has been a part of our Parent-Infant program and JTC’s preschool. She has been an active volunteer, engaging alumni families, helping to plan events and building relationships. Cindy is also a very talented graphic designer. She has worked on ad campaigns and promotional materials…
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Help make it possible for children who are deaf and hard of hearing to learn to listen, speak, and thrive!
In 1943 Louise Tracy pioneered a worldwide movement, offering one of the nation's very first spoken-language education and support programs for infants and young children with hearing loss. By becoming a supporter of JTC, you're helping children who are deaf and hard of hearing develop speech, language and listening skills, and equipping parents with the knowledge, support and training necessary to help their children achieve their full potential.
COVID-19
(as of June 2021)
During the pandemic, JTC is continuing all its critical services for children with, or at risk of, hearing loss.
Response to COVID-19 Global Pandemic
During the ongoing uncertainty associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, JTC pivoted quickly to provide services with minimal disruption. All of JTC's education services transitioned to remote learning within 48 hours in March 2020 and for the rest of our fiscal 2020 year ending in August 2020.
As we entered into September 2020, there continued to be a number of challenges and uncertainties for our teachers and preschoolers due to the uncertainties of the pandemic. Preschoolers attended virtually from March to October 2020, hybrid in-person and virtual from October until Thanksgiving, virtually from Thanksgiving through January 2021, and in person from February through the end of the school year in June 2021. School-age DHH itinerant support services were provided remotely by our DHH teachers in the 2020-21 school year. Families that receive parent-infant services, LSL-AVT and/or SLP were able to meet with their therapist through weekly remote teletherapy sessions.