Resources (Links)

COCHLEAR IMPLANT COMPANIES

Advanced Bionics (www.bionicear.com)
Cochlear Americas (www.cochlear.com)
Med-El (www.medel.com)

Other Websites of Interest

The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
An international membership organization on hearing loss and spoken language approaches and related issues.

The League for the Hard of Hearing
The League for the Hard of Hearing provides hearing rehabilitation and human services for people who are hard of hearing or deaf, andtheir families, regardless of age, ability to pay, or mode of communication, and by striving to empower consumers to achieve their potential.

The National Association of the Deaf
NAD is the oldest and largest constituency organization safeguarding the accessibility and civil rights of 28 million deaf and hard of hearing Americans in education, employment, health care, and telecommunications.

The National Information Clearing house on Children who are Deaf and Blind
DB-LINK is federally funded information and referral service that identifies, coordinates, and disseminates (at no cost) information related to children and youth who are deaf-blind (ages 0 to 21 years). Four organizations have pooled their expertise into a consortium-based clearinghouse.

Hearing Loss Association of America (formerly SHHH) (www.hearingloss.org)
HLA is a consumer, educational organization devoted to the welfare and interests of those who cannot hear well, their relatives, and friends.

The Maryland Cued Speech Association
The Maryland Cued Speech Association (MDCSA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the rights of children and adults in the state of Maryland to utilize and have access to Cued Speech in all settings.

The National Cued Speech Association
An organization that promotes utilizing cued speech as a communication mode.

Oral Deaf Education
Oral Deaf Education provides information and resources.

Raise Your Hand
Better hearing is within your reach. It's always a good idea to safe guard your own hearing by protecting your ears and routinely having your hearing checked.

The River School
The River School provides successful educational experiences for children and their families by uniting the best practices of early childhood education and oral deaf education; and to promote clinical research and training in child language literacy.

www.jtc.org - John Tracy Clinic
The John Tracy clinic’s mission is to offer hope, guidance and encouragement to families of infants and preschool children with hearing losses by providing free, parent-centered services worldwide.

Maryland Technology Assistance Program
MD TAP provides numerous services, including the Assistive Technology Guaranteed Loan Program, established through legislation, which enables people who might ordinarily be denied under a bank's stringent lending criteria to get a loan and to get it significantly below the current lending rate. TAP also provides an Equipment Loan Program and Equipment Display Centers where equipment and devices are displayed and demonstrated to consumers.

The American Academy of Audiology
The worlds largest professional organization of, for and by audiologists

American Speech Language and Hearing Association
ASHAs mission is to ensure that all people with speech, language, and hearing disorders have access to quality services to help them communicate effectively. ASHA is the governing body for speech language pathologists and audiologists.

National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
NIDCD is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language.

Clerccenter.gallaudet.edu – National Information Center on Deafness- Clerc Center
The Clerc Center has been mandated by congress to develop, evaluate, and disseminate innovative curricula, instructional techniques and strategies, and materials. The aim of the Clerc Center is to improve the quality of education for deaf and hard of hearing children and youth from birth through age 21.