Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss

What Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss does

Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss is a privately held, Texas-incorporated S-Corporation (EIN 81-320-3727) headquartered in Tampa, Florida, that produces and distributes specialized educational materials and assessment tools for children who are deaf or hard of hearing, their families, and the professionals who educate them. Its core business is organized around three related platforms: Teacher Tools Takeout, a subscription-based marketplace of instructional materials where third-party authors can submit content for 50–80% royalty; Supporting Success Courses, an online professional development platform for educators; and The LIFE-R (Listening Inventory For Education – Revised), a listening-skills assessment tool. The product catalog includes more than thirty assessment instruments (e.g., LCT-A:NU, DTAP, ESP, SPICE, TAPS-4, PAT-2 NU, SEAM, SCRIPT 2nd Edition), curriculum and game products for self-advocacy and social-emotional skills, professional handbooks, and the Streamer automated captioning device sourced from Auditory Sciences.

The company generates revenue through a mix of one-time unit-priced product sales ($21–$260 for assessments, $44–$99 for books and games), recurring subscriptions (Teacher Tools Takeout tiers, online courses), professional consultation services, and event-driven revenue from its annual virtual conference. Distribution is primarily direct-to-consumer through an e-commerce storefront at successforkidswithhearingloss.com, with international shipping via USPS and UPS, plus district purchase-order support for school buyers. Marketing relies on content-driven channels — website articles, a free bimonthly newsletter, the annual conference, and the marketplace — targeting a horizontal mix of customer segments including parents, teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing, educational audiologists, early intervention providers, and school districts.

The organization is founder/management-controlled (Executive Director Brenda Wellen; Director Karen L. Anderson, PhD), with no disclosed external investment, no parent company, and no identified subsidiaries beyond its related platform brands. No patents, regulatory actions, mergers, or third-party certifications are recorded in the available materials.

Name

Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss

Legal name

Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss Inc.

Website

https://successforkidswithhearingloss.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss is a privately held specialty education publisher offering assessment tools, curriculum, games, professional development courses, and an instructional-materials marketplace for professionals and parents supporting children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Special Education Resources for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Educational Support Services (6117), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Deaf/Hard of Hearing & Vision Services (Audiology, Interpreting, Orientation & Mobility) (EDAJAKAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Assistive Hearing & Communication Access (Captioning, Hearing Support, Transcription) (EDAFAKAC)

Keywords

• Deaf hard of hearing education
• Educational assessment tools
• Professional development courses
• Special education resources
• Assistive learning materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Tampa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Product Sales: Physical and digital educational products including books, assessment tools, games, and instructional materials sold through e-commerce storefront. Digital products include downloadable files with limited download attempts (3 times).
2. Online Professional Development: Webcasts and courses for professional development, CEUs, sold as single-license individual access with limited viewing periods.
3. Teacher Tools Takeout Subscriptions: Subscription-based marketplace access for instructional materials with tiered membership levels.
4. Consultation Services: Professional consultation services provided by experienced educators in the field of deaf/hard of hearing education. Does not constitute legal advice.
5. 2027 Virtual Conference: Virtual conference events with keynote speakers and professional development sessions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss develops and sells specialized assessment tools, curriculum, educational games, books, and professional development resources for educators, audiologists, school districts, and parents supporting children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The company operates the Teacher Tools Takeout subscription marketplace, the Supporting Success Courses online learning platform, and the LIFE-R listening assessment inventory, and it hosts an annual Virtual Conference for the field.

Product overview

Supporting Success For Children With Hearing Loss is an educational resource company offering a portfolio of assessment tools, curriculum materials, games, books, and professional development courses designed for professionals and families supporting children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The core offerings include the Teacher Tools Takeout marketplace (subscription-based instructional materials), Supporting Success Courses (online professional development/webcasts), and the LIFE-R assessment tool. The product catalog includes over 30 named assessment products spanning listening comprehension, speech perception, social-emotional development, language processing, and pragmatic skills; numerous educational games targeting social skills, communication repair, and self-advocacy; professional books and guides; and the Streamer automated captioning device. The company also organizes an annual Virtual Conference for the field.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Teacher Tools Takeout: A growing marketplace of instructional materials for students and information for teachers and parents of children with hearing loss.
• Supporting Success Courses
• The LIFE-R

Products and services

• Teacher Tools Takeout Marketplace Subscription-based marketplace of instructional materials for students and information for teachers and parents of children with hearing loss, where third-party authors can submit content for sale.
• Teacher Tools Takeout Subscriptions Tiered monthly subscription service providing access to the Teacher Tools Takeout marketplace of instructional materials.
• Supporting Success Courses Online professional development courses and webcasts for teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing and education professionals supporting children with hearing loss.
• The LIFE-R (Listening Inventory For Education – Revised) Inventory tool for assessing listening skills and educational needs of students with hearing loss in educational settings.
• Streamer Automated Captioning Speech-to-text captioning device that provides real-time captioning for classroom instruction, sourced from Auditory Sciences.
• FLE – Recorded Functional Listening Evaluation Using Sentences Recorded assessment tool for evaluating functional listening skills, speech perception in noise, distance effects, and lipreading benefit for children with hearing loss in school settings.
• Listening Comprehension Test – Adolescent LCT-A:NU Assessment evaluating listening comprehension skills and abilities in students ages 12-18, providing a Listening Comprehension Index.
• Social-Emotional Assessment / Evaluation Measure (SEAM) Two-part assessment evaluating social-emotional development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers at risk for delays, including Family Profile component.
• CAST – Contrasts for Auditory and Speech Training Auditory training program using picture cards to help children differentiate between speech sounds, develop auditory discrimination skills, and improve speech perception.
• Developmental Test of Auditory Perception (DTAP) Norm-referenced assessment evaluating foundational auditory perception skills necessary for learning, replacing the older Test of Auditory Comprehension.
• Test of Auditory Functioning-Learning Series (TAF) Comprehensive test of auditory functioning for teachers of the deaf/educators of the deaf, part of a 3-part learning series.
• SPICE – Speech Perception Instructional Curriculum & Evaluation Speech perception instructional curriculum and evaluation program for students with hearing loss who have residual hearing.
• Ask and Answer Social Skills Games Social skills board game targeting six skill areas (politeness, problem-solving, staying on topic, requesting information, initiating conversation, feelings) with 216 questions and visual cues.
• 2027 Virtual Conference Annual virtual conference event with keynote speakers and professional development sessions for educators of the deaf and hard of hearing.
• Professional Consultation Services Professional consultation services provided by experienced educators in the field of deaf/hard of hearing education. Does not constitute legal advice.

Quantifiable outcome

• Studies show hearing aids are nonfunctional or suboptimal for up to 50% of children, highlighting need for monitoring resources the organization provides

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• PayPalminorOthersThird-party payment processing service used for facilitating transactions and completing purchases. Payment data is stored by PayPal.

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Riverside Insights: Riverside Insights (formerly Riverside Publishing) publishes large-scale educational assessments (e.g., Iowa Assessments, Woodcock) sold to school districts. Comparable as an established assessment publisher serving the K-12 special-education buyer.
• School Specialty: School Specialty distributes broad-spectrum K-12 instructional materials, supplies, and intervention products to school districts, overlapping with SSCHL's district-channel distribution of educational and assistive resources.
• N2Y (Unique Learning System): N2Y delivers special-education curriculum and assessment (Unique Learning System, News-2-You) to districts serving students with significant disabilities. Comparable as a larger special-ed platform player, though broader than deaf/HoH specifically.

Direct peers

• Teachers Pay Teachers: Teachers Pay Teachers is the dominant teacher-resource marketplace, the closest direct competitor to Teacher Tools Takeout on subscription-based instructional content with third-party author royalties.
• Pro-Ed Inc. Pro-Ed is a leading publisher of educational and psychological assessments (including SPICE-related and language assessments) used by speech-language pathologists and special educators. Directly comparable as an assessment-publisher serving the same special-education buyer.
• Super Duper Publications: Super Duper publishes speech-language, hearing, and special-education materials, games, and resources for SLPs and teachers of the deaf/HoH. Overlaps strongly on products and target customer base.
• LinguiSystems: LinguiSystems (now part of Pro-Ed) historically produced speech-language and auditory processing materials for special education, overlapping with SSCHL's listening, social-language, and phonological awareness assessment lines.

Emerging players

• Abilitations (School Specialty): Abilitations produces sensory, movement, and inclusive learning products for special-needs classrooms, comparable to SSCHL's inclusive/special-needs educational materials and resources offered to schools and parents.
• Really Good Stuff: Really Good Stuff supplies K-8 classrooms with hands-on instructional materials, games, and teacher resources, with overlap on the games category SSCHL sells (e.g., social skills and listening games).

Others

• Handouts/AG Bell (Association): The Alexander Graham Bell Association serves listening, spoken language, and hearing-loss education stakeholders. Comparable as an adjacent ecosystem participant in deaf/HoH children's education, though nonprofit rather than a commercial publisher.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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