Following his death in 1972, she continued to develop and disseminate his technique, now known as the auditory-verbal approach, while studying speech therapy at Columbia University.
She founded her Easton practice, later the Helen Beebe Speech and Hearing Center, in 1944 and served as its director for forty years.
In 1972, the Larry Jarret Memorial Foundation was established by a small group of parents of their students, to promote Beebe's method of unisensory training and make it available to all hearing impaired children.
In the early 1980s, the practice moved into a new building that included the clinic and Larry Jarret House, where parents were taught how to use the method at home.
[4] Another pioneering act was that she invited young teachers to her therapy center, where they taught about fifty students from babies to teenagers.
Beebe used hearing aids to accustom children to speech through the ear, before they could become solely dependent on sign language, lip reading or visual signals.
In a 1983 interview, one of her former Deaf students, David Davis, stated that he could only have graduated from Harvard University because he was able to study at Beebes Center as a young child.
[5] In 1985, Lafayette College awarded Beebe an honorary doctorate in Human Sciences for her life's work as a teacher, scientist and pioneer of auditory-verbal therapy.