Carol L. Proctor Echo Center, formerly known as Oral Education Center, was created by parents, educators and interested community leaders in 1970 with the goal of integrating hearing-impaired children into the hearing world by teaching them to listen and to speak. In 1983 Kent H. Landsberg Echo Horizon School, a mainstream environment in which hearing-impaired children can work and learn alongside hearing peers, was established. The Board of Trustees governs the educational, administrative and financial operation of the school, which is a California not for profit corporation.

Under the guidance of specially trained teachers, hearing-impaired students, who comprise up to ten percent of our population, are integrated into Echo Horizon School classrooms. These students are given the support they need to grow and learn along with their hearing peers. All of our students benefit as they learn to participate productively and confidently with one another.

We Believe each child is special and deserves to reach his or her maximum potential. Echo Center and Echo Horizon School have created an elementary school environment that addresses the needs of hearing and hearing-impaired children enabling each to develop the necessary skills to participate confidently and productively in society.

Echo Center is committed to the auditory-oral approach as the first option for hearing-impaired children. We are dedicated to developing listening, speech and language skills by involving hearing-impaired children in mainstream classes onsite at Echo Horizon School. At Echo Center, specialists in hearing impairment work to:

• Improve Verbal Skills
• Use Residual Hearing
• Optimize Listening Conditions Including The Use Of FM
  and Sound-field Amplification Equipment
• Tutor Individuals And Small Groups
• Collaborate With Mainstream Teachers
• Support Parents
• Provide Resource/Referral Service