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The Hearing and Speech Agency has been serving the Maryland community since 1926. Our services include:

• Adult and pediatric audiology
• An Auditory/Oral Center
• A Center for Fluency Enhancement
• Speech/Language Evaluations and Therapy
• Gateway School, a nonpublic school for children ages 3-12 with communication disorders
• Centralized Interpreter Referral Service (CIRS) which provides sign language and oral interpreters for members of the Deaf community throughout Maryland.

What makes HASA stand out?

HASA stories peak interest not only because our organization has been around for so long (1926). It is also because we do very specialized work with the Deaf community and with children and adults with some very interesting/challenging communication disorders such as:

• Selective Mutism
• Stuttering
• Infants with moderate to profound hearing loss who are learning to speak and function in the speaking world
• Adults and seniors newly diagnosed with hearing loss

Our experts are accustomed to giving advice to parents and willing to be on hand for reporters who need insight and information about hearing loss, deafness, Deaf culture, American Sign Language, interpreting, treatment for both common and rare communication disorders, hearing loss, new technologies for hearing-loss treatment, resources available for deaf or hard of hearing adults and children, speakers, developmental disorders with significant impact on speech/language ability, autism, and special education.

We are on the cutting edge of treatment for hearing loss with our pre- and post-cochlear implant services and our Auditory/Oral Center, the only one of its kind in Maryland.

HASA is also unique because of:

• Our outstanding ability to help children with developmental disorders in which communication difficulties are the main barrier to learning.
• The education levels and certifications of our professional staff, several of whom have graduated from top-level schools. 
• Our ability to teach infants and children with hearing loss to speak and function in the hearing world through 
  
  • an integrated program that includes on-site, daily attention from professional audiologists 
  • education provided by highly credentialed Teachers of the Deaf
  • training for children as young as six months in how to use assistive listening devices.