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5501 Fortunes Ridge Dr.
Suite A
Durham, NC 27713
919-419-1428

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CASTLE is funded through a private/public partnership and is an expansion of the W. Paul Biggers, MD Carolina Children's Communicative Disorders Program (CCCDP). The CCCDP is funded by the state of North Carolina and offers financial assistance to families for hearing aids, FM systems and cochlear implant technology. CASTLE, as part of the CCCDP, works through the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, to provide comprehensive services to children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The CCCDP/CASTLE office is conveniently located in the Woodcroft Professional Complex.

CASTLE is an OPTIONschool, an organization whose mission is "to advance excellence in oral deaf education by providing services that assist schools and programs to increase their effectiveness, efficiency, and ability to teach children who are deaf listen to talk."  For a list of other Auditory Oral Schools in the US, Canada and overseas, who are part of the OPTIONschools network, click here.  

We would like to announce the opening of CASTLE Wilmington, a program for children who are deaf and hard of hearing in Wilmington, NC. Services include an auditory oral preschool for ages 3+, auditory verbal therapy for ages birth-18 months, and a toddler language group for ages 10 months - 3 years.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Center for Acquisition of Spoken language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE) is two-fold. CASTLE is dedicated to providing quality auditory-oral early intervention and preschool services to children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families. CASTLE teaches, encourages, empowers, and supports the parents as the primary teachers of their young children, in order to promote healthy parent/caregiver bonding and to maximize the amount of time a child spends in a language-rich environment.

CASTLE provides this model program in order offer educational opportunities to professionals and university students in the form of workshops and inservices as well as practicum experience on-site in the field of oral deaf education.

History

As is the case in other areas of the country and around the world, the need for qualified, trained professionals in the area of auditory-oral education of children who are deaf and hard of hearing in the state of North Carolina is growing. CASTLE is the fulfillment of Carolyn J. Brown's dream, a speech-language pathologist and audiologist, to establish a model preschool and early intervention program for the purpose of providing hands-on training opportunities for professionals and university students in the state.

Ms. Brown came to NC in 1993 to direct a new UNC Program, The W. Paul Biggers, MD Carolina Children's Communicative Disorders Program (CCCDP) which included the Cochlear Implant Program. The CCCDP provides financial assistance and services to children who are deaf and hard of hearing in the state of North Carolina. Since that time, this program has implanted more than 500 children and currently follows close to 600 children who have been implanted there and elsewhere. Carolyn quickly recognized the vast need for educational and re-educational opportunities for this state, which had offered only a manual option. CASTLE is one of the many contributions UNC has made to the growth of auditory-oral education opportunities for children who are deaf or hard of hearing in North Carolina. Carolyn began seeking funds to provide a model auditory-oral program in 1999 and the first employee was hired in May of 2001.

2008-2009 CASTLE Durham School Calendar

2008 
July 14First day of class
August 28No School "Moving Day"
September 1Labor day Holiday for students and teachers
September 11Last day of 1st Quarter
September 15-October 3Intercession, No School
October 6Beginning of 2nd quarter
November 6No School - Fall Conference
November 11No School - Veteran's Day
November 26-27Holidays for students and teachers [Thanksgiving Day]
December 11Last day of 2nd Quarter
December 15-January 2Intercession, No School
  
2009 
January 5Beginning of 3rd quarter
January 19Holiday for students and teachers [Martin Luther King, Jr Day]
March 5End of the 3rd quarter
March 9No School - Student Vacation Day
March 30-April 17Intercession, No School
April 20Beginning of 4th Quarter
May 25Memorial Day Holiday
June 4Last day of school

2008-2009 CASTLE Wilmington School Calendar

2008 
July 21First day of class
September 1Labor day Holiday for students and teachers
September 18Last day of 1st Quarter
September 22-October 10Intercession, No School
October 13Beginning of 2nd quarter
November 6No School - Fall Conference
November 11No School - Veteran's Day
November 26-27Holidays for students and teachers [Thanksgiving Day]
December 18Last day of 2nd Quarter
December 22-January 9Intercession, No School

 

2009 
January 12Beginning of 3rd quarter
January 19Holiday for students and teachers [Martin Luther King, Jr Day]
March 19End of the 3rd quarter
March 23-April 9Intercession, No School
April 13Beginning of 4th Quarter
May 25Memorial Day Holiday
June 4Last Day of School

News

CASTLE aligns with NC Consortium for Deaf/HH Continuing Education to offer new training program.  More info.

Fall Language and Literacy Workshops announced.  More info.

CASTLE 2009 Carolina Summer Insititute in Auditory Verbal Therapy.  More info.

UNC Researchers to Take part in Multi-Center, $8.9 Million Study of Childhood Hearing Loss.  More info.

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