"Many thanks for a lifetime with memories of first beginnings and a future with happiness, opportunities and, best of all, lots of optimism!"
-Parents of a PIP graduate

Our Goals

We believe children advance to the best of their abilities when their emerging skills are reinforced in a context of acceptance and respect. Using a team approach, we provide parents, siblings, extended family and caregivers with the education and emotional support to create an environment that promotes a child's natural development of:

Language - through American Sign Language (ASL), spoken language, Auditory Sandwiching

Auditory Skills - with hearing aids, FM systems, cochlear implants

Cognition - through age appropriate play

We are committed to parent education in visual communication, child development, hearing loss and amplification, community and parent-to-parent connections. We welcome families with deaf or hard of hearing infants and toddlers who have a developmental delay such as deaf-blindness, vision loss, or cerebral palsy.

Our inclusive philosophy provides access to various modes of communication, so your child can develop a foundation of language that will serve well for learning to read and write. We support the idea that each child is a child first - someone who needs to laugh and play, love and be loved and be an integral part of family life and culture. Communication allows families to build upon that relationship.

Our professional staff includes Deaf and hearing professionals who hold Master's degrees and Washington State Certification with specialized training in one or more of these areas: Early Childhood Education, Family Counseling, Deaf Education, Deaf-Blind Education, Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology, Occupational Therapy, Sensory Disabilities, American Sign Language, Deaf Culture, ESL, Language Acquisition.