To Hear - To Speak - To Understand

The Miracle of RiteCare Clinics, Centers and Programs

In the early 1950s in Colorado the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States initiated a program to help children with speech and language disorders. The results of that program led to our current network of RiteCare Childhood Language clinics, centers and programs providing diagnostic evaluation and treatment of speech and language disorders as well as learning disabilities in children. On average in recent years, 28,000 children annually have received aid from our clinics. These children have been brought from silence, loneliness and despair to speech, companionship and happiness.

Today there are over 170 RiteCare clinics, centers and special programs for children located throughout the United States. Each facility is staffed by speech-language pathologists or other trained personnel. Through the support of Scottish Rite members, these clinics, centers and programs continue to increase. The value of this philanthropy has long been apparent. Tens of thousands of youngsters across the United States have been helped significantly. With the good work of dedicated clinicians and parents, the Scottish Rite has achieved successes that could only be imagined a few years back. Children who might have remained educationally handicapped for a lifetime can now talk, read and lead useful lives.