Capland Center

Capland Center

  • 2660 Aero Dr
  • Port Arthur, Texas
  • 77640

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The Capland Center for Communication Disorders is a community speech-language-hearing center located at 3049 36th Street in Port Arthur, Texas. The agency provides diagnostic evaluations and therapeutic remediation for individuals of all ages experiencing speech and language communication disorders. The Capland Center also offers a hearing screening program that is designed to provide audiological hearing screenings for pre-school through adult age clients to identify potential hearing deficits. Clients failing the hearing screening are referred to hearing specialists or physicians as appropriate. Further, the agency has plans to provide a remedial language program to promote emergent literacy and language comprehension skills for school-aged children. The Capland Center for Communication Disorders was founded in 1953 by the Service League of Port Arthur and was originally named Sunnyside School. The mission was to serve children with speech and hearing disorders. The agency changed its name in 1958 to Sunnyside Speech and Hearing Center and broadened its service to people of all ages experiencing communication disorders. The agency was renamed in 1976 to honor Lethale Capland, a dedicated community member that actively participated in the formation of the organization. Ms. Capland served as the first president of the Capland Center's Board of Directors. The agency has been located at its current address since 1963. The Capland Center for Communication Disorders celebrated...

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