NRIC Auditory Oral Program

The Auditory-Oral Program (AOP) is a specialized program for children who are deaf or have a profound hearing loss to learn how to listen and speak employing the benefits of technology - hearing aids or cochlear implants. The program provides children intensive auditory, speech and language training and habilitation to develop the necessary readiness skills for successful mainstream experiences back in their home districts.


The program includes daily instruction with Oral Teachers of the Deaf in the classroom as well as daily auditory training with an auditory-oral speech language pathologist. The AOP has inclusive early childhood and elementary classrooms at Edgewood Highland Elementary School in Cranston.