American
Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB)
8630 Fenton Street, Suite 121
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-3803
The American Association
of the Deaf-Blind (AADB) is a nonprofit society
of people who are deaf-blind and other concerned
individuals. It was organized for the purpose of
advancing the economic, educational, and social
welfare of people who are deaf-blind and improving
their morale. |
American
Auditory Society (AAS)
512 E. Canterbury Lane
Phoenix, AZ 85022
www.amauditorysoc.org
The purpose of the American Auditory Society
(AAS) is to increase the knowledge and understanding
of the ear, hearing, and balance; their disorders
and how they may be prevented; the habilitation
and rehabilitation of individuals with hearing and
balance dysfunction. |
Better
Hearing Institute (BHI)
515 King Street
Suite 420
Alexandria, VA 22314
www.betterhearing.org
The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is a nonprofit
educational organization that implements national
public information programs on hearing loss and
available medical, surgical, hearing aid, and rehabilitation
assistance for millions of Americans with uncorrected
hearing problems. |
Boys
Town National Research Hospital
555 N. 30th Street
Omaha, NE 68131
Boys Town National Research
Hospital is internationally recognized for research
into and treatment of childhood deafness and communication
disorders. |
Cochlear
Implant Association, Inc.
5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Suite 440
Washington, DC 20015-2034
Cochlear Implant
Association, Inc. (CIAI) is a nonprofit organization
that provides information and support to cochlear
implant users, health professionals, and the general
public. |
Department
of Veteran Affairs
VA Medical Center
50 Irving Street, NW
Washington, DC 20422
www.washington.med.va.gov
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) provides
services for veterans who have speech, hearing,
language, or balance problems. |
HEAR
NOW
6700 Washington Avenue
South Eden Prairie, MN 55344
HEAR NOW, a domestic program
of the Starkey Hearing Foundation, provides hearing
aids to people with limited financial resources.
HEAR NOW is a program of last resort; all other
options must be used before services is awarded. |
Helen
Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths &
Adults
111 Middle Neck Road
Sands Point, NY 11050
www.helenkeller.org/national
The mission of the Helen Keller National Center
(HKNC) is to enable all those who are deaf-blind
to live and work in the community of their choice.
HKNC provides comprehensive vocational rehabilitation
training and assistance with job and residential
placements. |
House
Ear Institute (HEI)
2100 W. Third Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057
The House Ear Institute
(HEI) is a private, nonprofit research and professional
education facility that investigates the causes
of hearing loss and vestibular disorders. |
League
for the Hard of Hearing (LHH)
50 Broadway
New York, NY 10004
www.lhh.org
The League offers people
who are hard of hearing or deaf access to diagnostic,
rehabilitation, counseling, and education programs.
The mission of this not for profit agency is to
improve the quality of life for people with all
degrees of hearing loss and to offer comprehensive
services regardless of age or mode of communication. |
National
Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
100 Rt. 37
PO Box 8923
New Fairfield, CT 06812
www.rarediseases.org
The National Organization for Rare Disorders
(NORD) is a nonprofit voluntary health agency that
acts as a clearinghouse for information on rare
disorders. Rare diseases include neurofibromatosis,
Niemann-Pick disease, and Usher syndrome type 2. |
NIDCD
31 Center Drive
MSC 2320
Bethesda, MD 20892-2320
www.nidcd.nih.gov
Established in 1988, 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. The Institute also conducts and supports
research and research training related to disease
prevention and health promotion; addresses special
biomedical and behavioral problems associated with
people who have communication impairments or disorders;
and supports efforts to create devices which substitute
for lost and impaired sensory and communication
function. |
Self
Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. (SHHH)
7910 Woodmont Avenue
Suite 1200
Bethesda, MD 20814
www.shhh.org
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. (SHHH),
is an international volunteer organization composed
of people who are hard of hearing and their relatives
and friends. |
The
Foundation Fighting Blindness
11435 Cronhill Drive
Owings Mills, MD 21117-2220
www.blindness.org
The urgent mission of The Foundation Fighting
Blindness is to fund the research that will discover
the causes, treatments, preventive methods, and
cures for retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration,
Usher syndrome, Stargardt disease, and the entire
spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases. |
Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center
University of Washington
Box 357923
Seattle, WA 98195-7923
The Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research
Center at the University of Washington is dedicated
to interdisciplinary research on hearing, hearing
loss, and related communication disorders. |
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