Max A. Goldstein (1870-1941) and Central Institute for the Deaf

Dr. Goldstein’s Office at Vandeventer and Westminster Place
Central Institute for the Deaf opened as a school on September 23, 1914 in rooms over Dr. Goldstein’s medical office at Vandeventer Avenue and Westminster Place.
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	First CID School
	Very shortly thereafter, a period of fundraising for a school building (and other school needs) began. Property was purchased on South Kingshighway and construction began in 1916.
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CID ca. 1929
CID continued to grow. In 1928, work started on a new building which was dedicated in 1929. The school is in the center, the science wing, including a library, is on the Papin Street side and the residence wing is on the Clayton Avenue side.
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	CID ca. 1955
	A state of the art clinic and research building was added to CID facilities. This building was completed in 1951.
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CID 1999
The third CID school building, the first step towards an integrated new CID campus, was dedicated in 1999.
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“I’ve started things that I know I’ll never be able to finish. I know I shall not have enough time. And they are things that must be finished.”

— Max A. Goldstein, 1930

In 2001 CID completed a new campus, including a specially designed “quiet school” built for oral deaf education, an adult clinic and state-of-the-art biological research laboratories. In 2003, Washington University School of Medicine assumed ownership and governance of CID’s Harold W. Siebens Hearing Research Center, Spencer T. Olin Hearing Clinic, and graduate programs for audiologists, deaf educators and scientists (formerly the Washington University Department of Speech and Hearing, operated by CID). These programs now form the nucleus of a consortium of programs in hearing and deafness called CID at Washington University School of Medicine and operated by the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, one of the nation’s largest otolaryngology departments.

Effective with the 2003 agreement, the CID professional education programs assumed a new name, the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS). Central Institute for the Deaf continues as a financially independent organization, closely affiliated with CID at Washington University School of Medicine.

Today, Central Institute for the Deaf and CID at Washington University School of Medicine continue a unique combination of education, research and clinical and community service, carrying forth Max Goldstein’s legacy of a place where teachers, doctors and parents work together to benefit deaf people, starting with children. Working audiologists, teachers and scientists serve as graduate program faculty and graduate students gain experience in real-world settings, including the CID Oral School, the Spencer T. Olin Hearing Clinic and the Harold W. Siebens Hearing Research Center on the CID campus. Work continues on the most progressive and promising techniques and technologies. CID schoolchildren benefit from state-of-the-art facilities and from a staff on the leading edge of knowledge in deaf education, audiology and rehabilitative techniques.

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