Quality of life depends a great deal on the ability to communicate. Since 1961, the Warren Center for Communication & Learning has been helping people of all ages overcome barriers to effective communication by providing licensed, professional services and clinical therapy combined with an unparalleled commitment to caring and support.

The Warren Center for Communication & Learning is Bangor Maine’s oldest not for profit, professional speech and hearing center and is the largest center of its kind in the area. The Center has worked to fulfill its mission, which is to provide evaluations, therapies and technologies in the areas of speech, language development and hearing to the children and adults of Eastern and Central Maine.

The Warren Center was founded by the Junior League of Bangor in 1961 as the Bangor Regional Speech & Hearing Center after a measles epidemic hit Central Maine in the 1950’s, leaving many children deaf or with significant hearing losses. The Center has expanded its services from primarily helping hearing and speech problems of the very young to offering services and support for people of all ages.

We serve clients in five counties of Eastern and Central Maine and are the sole provider of some services, such as cochlear implant programming, in the state. We havetwelve speech-language pathology clinicians and two audiologists on staff. We serve people of all ages, from infants who need hearing screenings, preschoolers who are overcoming language development delays, adults who struggle with stuttering and are in need of rehabilitation, to the elders in our communities who are in need of hearing tests and aides.

The Warren Center is a not-for-profit corporation in the State of Maine. It is governed by an all-volunteer board of directors comprised of 9 community leaders who serve renewable three-year terms.

Misson: The Warren Center for Communication & Learning provides evaluations, therapies and technologies in the areas of speech, language development and hearing to the children and adults of Eastern and Central Maine

Special Programs:

The Regional Hearing Aid Bank, ReHAB for short, is designed to provide hearing aids to those members of our community who are unable to afford them. It utilizes donated behind-the-ear hearing aids which can be refurbished and reprogrammed for use by another person.

The ReHAB program is designed particularly for members of the community who are unable to be served by the Veterans' Administration, Vocational Rehabilitation program, insurances or other third-party providers and whose annual income is less than 200% of the federal poverty level. There is an application process and a waiting list for these services.

The costs of refurbishing the hearing aids, the manufacture of the ear molds and the warranties and servicing totals $500 per participant in the program.  The cost of funding the program comes from donations and grants.

Warren Center Cookbooks now available!

Find all your favorite recipes in a convenient format, only $8.00. Great for birthdays, holidays and "just because."

Available at the following locations:
The Warren Center
Mr. Paperback - Dover-Foxcroft, Bangor, Ellsworth
WJ Lippincott Booksellers, Bangor
Shepard's Path, Bangor
St. Joseph Hospital Gift Shop, Bangor
Miller Drug Store, Bangor
Whole Life Natural Market, Machias
BookMarc's, Bangor
Lamb's Bookstore, Bangor
Bangor House of Pizza, Bangor
Rebecca's Gift Shop, Bangor
Frank's Bakery, Bangor
Grasshopper Shop, Bangor

For more information, visit our website at www.warrencenter.org