Deaf
and Hearing Impaired
(This page
was last updated on December 22, 2002.)
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- Alexander
Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing
- The
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and
Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) is an international
membership organization comprised of parents of
children who are deaf and hard of hearing, adults with
hearing loss, and professionals who serve children
with hearing loss.
- American
Sign Language Fonts
- You
can "write" in sign language using the graphics on
this page.
- American
Sign Language Teachers Association
- This
site is for the National Professional Organization of
American Sign Language and Deaf Studies
Teachers.
- American
Society for Deaf Children
- This site provides a
link between those with experiences to share and the
people seeking answers to questions about deafness.
This is an organization of parents and families which
advocates for deaf or hard of hearing children's total
quality participation in education, the family and the
community.
- American
Speech and Language Association
- ASHA
is the professional and scientific association for
more than 96,000 speech-language pathologists,
audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing
scientists in the United States and
internationally.
- All
You Wanted to Know About Deafness - DEAF-L
FAQ
- Communicating
with your classmate who is deaf or hard of
hearing
- This
is an excellent article geared to
kids.
- DeafWatch
Homepage
- This
web site is written by a man who is deaf and is
interested in communicating with others about many
different issues of interest to the deaf community,
especially the issue of
discrimination.
- National
Association of the Deaf
- This is the oldest
and largest organization representing people with
disabilities in the United States. The NAD safeguards
the accessibility and civil rights of 28 million deaf
and hard of hearing Americans in a variety of areas
including education, employment, health care and
social services, and
telecommunications.
- National
Center for Hearing Assessment and
Management
- The
goal of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and
Management (NCHAM) is to establish universal newborn
hearing screening as an accepted, national standard of
care and, in so doing, dramatically lower the age in
which children with congenital hearing loss are
identified.
- Marions
Downs National Center for Infant Hearing
- A
primary goal of the Marion Downs Center is to
establish universal hearing screening (85% of births)
in the 17 states by the year 2000.
- Self
Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc.
(SHHH)
- This
is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to
the well-being of people of all ages and communication
styles who do not hear well. SHHH and its members are
catalysts who make mainstream society more accessible
to people who are hard of hearing. SHHH strives to
improve the quality of hard of hearing people's lives
though education, advocacy and self
help.
- Vermont
Department of Education: Deaf and Hard of
Hearing
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