For almost 30 years, the Hearing and Speech Foundation has provided the gift of sound for hundreds of thousands of individuals in East Tennessee and beyond. One part of that gift is providing profoundly-deaf individuals with the tools they need for normal speech patterns.

The HSF Training Program focuses on a multi-sensory approach to auditory training for educators of the deaf and parents with deaf or hard-of-hearing children.

Through the Verbotonal Method, trainers are able to teach profoundly-deaf children to develop normal speech patterns, thus enabling them to live in a hearing world.