History of the Warren Center

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 have eleven 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.