The Shepherd Centre
Australia
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The Shepherd Centre teaches deaf and hearing impaired children how to listen and speak so that they can reach their full potential in the hearing world. The Shepherd Centre was founded in 1970 by Dr Bruce Shepherd AM and his late wife Annette. In 1970 there were just five families in our program. Today The Shepherd Centre helps over 200 children and families in five centres in NSW and ACT, as well as families in rural and remote areas of Australia and overseas via our residential workshop and correspondence program. Our family centred early intervention program focuses on training parents to seize every opportunity in day to day situations to teach their children to listen and speak. Our aim is that children will enter their local mainstream schools in a fully-integrated environment. We currently achieve this goal for over 90% of children at The Shepherd Centre.
