DeRidder, LA

Just before the beginning of the 20th Century, the Pittsburgh & Gulf Railroad, later called the Kansas City Southern, connected DeRidder, LA, to the rest of America, making it possible for communities being built all across the Midwest access to the abundance of longleaf pine lumber milled in Beauregard Parish.

Besides its reputation as a timber town, DeRidder is home to the “Hanging Jail,” a three-story, Gothic-style structure with shallow arches, dormer windows, and a central tower, typically seen on college campuses and churches built in the same era. Its infamous sobriquet came after two prisoners were hung from an apparatus at the top of the spiral staircase in 1928.

Rather than feeling connected to family, friends, and their community, those with hearing loss often feel like prisoners, unable to share the abundance of knowledge and experience they’ve gained throughout their lifetime. Our audiology experts near DeRidder, LA, not quite an hour away on US Highway 171, in Lake Charles, have supported thousands of Southwest Louisiana patients on their journey to better hearing and a richer, independent quality of life.

Acadian Hearing Services’ comprehensive hearing assessments, expertise in balance and vestibular disorders, and advanced technology hearing aids used by our team of professional audiologists free DeRidder residents with hearing challenges to reconnect and share their vibrant and rewarding life with family, friends, and their Southwest Louisiana community.