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The Carruth Center
The Carruth Center at The Parish School offers a wide range of specialized support services for children and their families from the greater Houston area as well as those from The Parish School. The Carruth Center is conveniently located in its own building on The Parish School campus.
The Parish School Connection
The Carruth Center was originally The Diagnostic Treatment and Training Center. It was established to help Parish School families who were in need of individual speech therapy and were not receiving these services elsewhere. The need for services has steadily increased. Individual therapy has gone from 15 sessions a week to 75 sessions. Experts in the fields of child psychology, neuropsychology, occupational therapy, psychotherapy, counseling, and social language groups have joined the Center. The facility was renamed The Carruth Center in 1991 to honor the generosity and commitment of Ethel Carruth and her family. Funding from the Carruth Foundation, Inc. allowed the Center to function independently from The Parish School, thereby serving more families in the community.
As a year-round facility, the Carruth Center provides support services to students of The Parish School as well as children in the community. Parish School families are welcome to utilize the Carruth Center's services, although it is not required. Clinicians readily work with outside schools and clinics to provide their clients with a collaborative approach to learning.
The Carruth Family
Volunteerism has been a way of life for me, but I have received much more than I have ever given – Ethel G. Carruth
Ethel G. Carruth was a dedicated and generous patron not only of The Parish School but of many Houston civic and cultural organizations. Ethel Greasley earned her degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania, where she met and married Allen H. Carruth. After the couple moved to Houston, she was an active member of Houston Symphony, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of education at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Houston Country Club. She was active in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and served on the Board of the Houston Zoo. In 1990, Mrs. Carruth was honored as a Houston Woman of Distinction by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. She sang in the choir at First Presbyterian Church for fifty years.
Mrs. Carruth donated over $2 million to The Parish School and the Carruth Center.
