Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech

Clarke's five campuses serve more than 1,000 students annually in Canton, Massachusetts, Jacksonville, Florida, New York City, Northampton, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Clarke is the first and largest organization of its kind in the U.S. Its Northampton campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

In the present day, Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech operates from five locations:[2] In 2007, Clarke School was featured in the PBS documentary Through Deaf Eyes produced by Larry Hott.

The documentary depicted deafness and Deaf culture in the United States and the choices parents face between sign language and oral language.

Molestations were reported, Jewish students were forced to attend church, and teachers used methods of corporal punishment that were considered extreme even by the standards of the time on students whose speech did not satisfy their hearing teachers.