Causes: Community Clinics, Health

Mission: To provide speech, language and hearing services to children with fees based on their families'' ability to pay.

Results: Our Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologist work hard to improve the articulation, language, voice, fluency and hearing of children in our care. Over 2 million dollars in free or reduced fee services have been provided to date to children who may not have been able to receive these life-changing services without our assistance.

Target demographics: The Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center works with children from birth through age 18 who demonstrate communication disorders.

Direct beneficiaries per year: Over 9,200 have been served since opening in 1991.

Geographic areas served: Central Virginia

Programs: Our services include the evaluation of speech, language, hearing, fluency, voice and auditory processing disorders and the subsequent treatment of each.