Links

• Organizations for persons with a hearing loss
• Parent Information
• Audiology
• Cochlear Implants
• Hearing Aid Manufacturers
• FM Systems
• Educational Programs for Children
• Medical Research Organizations
• Advocacy Organizations
• Teacher Education
• Products for the Deaf

Organizations for persons with a hearing loss

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  Auditory Verbal UK is a national charity committed to the Auditory Verbal method of enabling hearing-impaired children acquire listening and spoken language skills, www.auditoryverbal.org.uk

• Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, www.agbell.org

• Better Hearing Institute, www.betterhearing.org
  

• National Association for the Deaf, www.nad.org

• National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, www.nidcd.nih.gov/
  

• Self-Help for the Hard of Hearing, www.shhh.org

• Listen Up, www.listen-up.org

• BEGINNINGS for Parents of Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Inc., www.beginningssvcs.com

• National Deaf Children's Society, www.ndcs.org.uk

• Cued Speech INFO
  http://www.cuedspeech.info
  

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Parent Information

• Hearing and amplification, www.babyhearing.org

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Audiology

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, www.asha.org

• Academy of Doctors of Audiology, www.audiologist.org

• American Academy of Audiology, www.audiology.org

• Educational Audiology Association, www.edaud.org

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Cochlear Implants

• Cochlear Corporation, www.cochlear.com

• Advanced Bionics, www.advancedbionics.com

• Med-El, www.medel.com

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Hearing Aid Manufacturers

• Oticon,www.oticon.com

• Siemens, www.siemens-hearing.com

• Phonak, www.phonak-us.com

• Unitron, www.unitron.com

• Starkey, www.starkey.com

• Widex, www.widex.com

• AVR Sonovation, www.avrsono.com

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FM Systems

• Telex FM, www.telex.com

• Phonic Ear, www.phonicear.com

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Educational Programs for Children

• Cued Speech, www.cuedspeech.com

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), www.asha.org

• The Ear Foundation, UK, http://www.earfoundation.org.uk/

• List of other Auditory Oral Schools in the US, Canada and overseas, who are part of the OPTIONschools network

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Medical Research Organizations

• Boys Town, USA, http://www.boystown.org/
  

• House Ear Institute, www.hei.org

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Advocacy Organizations

• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY), www.nichcy.org

• Special Education Advocates, www.wrightslaw.com

• National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM), www.infanthearing.org

• Family Village, www.familyvillage.wisc.edu

• Department of Education - Special Education, www.ideapractices.org/

• Family & Advocates Partnership for Education (IDEA Partnerships Project Partner), www.fape.org

• Marion Downs National Center for Infant Hearing, http://www.colorado.edu/slhs/mdnc/

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  Provides people with disabilities, their families, employers, service providers and other community members with critical disability-related information.

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Teacher Education

• ACE - DHH, http://www.acedhh.org

• Gallaudet University, www.gallaudet.edu

• Network of Educators of Children with Cochlear Implants (NECCI), www.childrenshearing.org

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Products for the Deaf

• HearMore.com - Products for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Seniors, http://www.hearmore.com

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