AARP
601 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20049
AARP raises awareness
of the needs of older people with disabilities and
disseminates information to people with disabilities
and their families, as well to interested professionals. |
Acoustic
Neuroma Association (ANA)
PO Box 12402
Atlanta, GA 30355
The Acoustic Neuroma Association
(ANA) provides information and support to patients
who have been diagnosed with or have experiences
an acoustic Neuroma or other benign problems affecting
the cranial nerves. ANA also educates the public
regarding symptoms suggesting an acoustic neuroma
and promotes early diagnosis and successful treatment. |
Alexander
Graham Bell Association for the Deaf
3417 Volta Place, NW
Washington, DC 20007
The Alexander Graham
Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
(A.G. Bell) is a membership-based information center
on hearing loss, emphasizing the use of technology,
speech, speech reading, residual hearing, and written
and spoken language. A.G. Bell focuses specifically
on children with hearing loss, providing ongoing
support and advocacy for parents, professionals,
and other interested parties. |
American
Academy of Audiology (AAA)
8300 Greensboro Drive
Suite 750
McLean, VA 22102
The American Academy of
Audiology (AAA) is a professional organization of
individuals dedicated to providing quality hearing
care to the public. |
American
Academy of Otolaryngology-Head &Neck....
One Prince Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
The American Academy
of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS),
a non profit association, strives to unites, serve,
and represent the interests of ear, nose, and throat
specialists and their patients to the public government,
other medical specialists, and related organizations. |
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. |
American
Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF)
55 E. Washington Street
Suite 2022
Chicago, IL 60602
The goal of the American
Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) is to help raise
the hearing functions of people with hearing disabilities
to normal levels. |
American
Society for Deaf Children (ASDC)
PO Box 3355
Gettysburg, PA 17325
The American Society
for Deaf Children (ASDC) is a national organization
of families and professionals committed to educating,
empowering, and supporting parents and families
of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. |
American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association
10801 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
The American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association (ASHA) is the national professional,
scientific, and credentialing association for more
than 93,000 audiologists; speech-language pathologists;
and speech, language, and hearing scientists. |
American
Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHF)
10801 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
The mission of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASH Foundation)
is to support the advancement of knowledge and improvement
of practice in serving children and adults with
speech, language, or hearing disorders. The ASH
Foundation supports research, graduate scholarships,
and special projects that facilitate innovative
directions in the field of communication sciences
and disorders. |
American
Tinnitus Association (ATA)
PO Box 5
Portland, OR 97207
The mission of the American
Tinnitus Association (ATA) is to promote the relief,
prevention, and eventual cure of tinnitus for the
benefit of present and future generations. The ATA
provides education, information, self-help, and
hearing health referrals to millions of American
who have tinnitus. |
Association
for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)
19 Mantua Road
Mt. Royal, NJ 08061
The Association for
Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) is an international
scientific society of researchers who investigate
basic science and clinical problems associated with
hearing, speech, balance, smell, taste, and diseases
of the head and neck. |
Association
of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA)
1145 Westgate Street
Suite 206
Oak Park, IL 60301
The Association of Late-Deafened
Adults (ALDA) serves as a resource center providing
information and referrals, self-help, and support
groups for people deafened as adults. ALDA works
to increase public awareness of the special needs
of deafened adults. |
Auditory-Verbal
International (AVI)
2121 Eisenhower Avenue
Suite 402
Alexandria, VA 22314
Auditory-Verbal International
(AVI) is a nonprofit international organization
serving children with hearing impairment, their
families, and the professional community. AVI provides
the choice of listening and speaking as the way
of life for children who are deaf or hard of hearing
through education, advocacy, and family support. |
Beginnings
for Parents of Children Who Are Deaf
3900 Barrett Drive
Suite 100
Raleigh, NC 27609
‘Beginnings’
provides support and information in an impartial
manner to parents and professional dealing with
deaf and hard of hearing issues in children. |
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. |
Central
Institute for the Deaf (CID)
4560 Clayton Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
Central Institute for
the Deaf (CID) is a private, nonprofit institute
composed of research laboratories in which scientists
study the normal aspects as well as the disorders
of hearing, language, and speech; a school for children
who have hearing impairments; speech, language,
and hearing clinics; and professional education
programs in Audiology, education of people with
hearing impairment, and communication sciences. |
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/audio-speech/index.htm
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) provides
services for veterans who have speech, hearing,
language, or balance problems. |
Department
of Veterans Affairs, Audiology
50 Irving Street, NW
Washington, DC 20422
The Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) provides services for veterans who
have hearing, speech, language, or balance problems. |
EAR
Foundation
1817 Patterson Street
Nashville, TN 37203
The goal of the EAR
Foundation is to integrate people who have hearing
impairments in to the mainstream of society through
public awareness and medical education. The foundation
administers the Meniere’s Network, a national
network of patient support groups that provides
people with the opportunity to share experiences
and coping strategies. |
Gallaudet
University (GU)
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Gallaudet University
is the world’s only university in which all
programs and services are specifically designed
to accommodate students who are deaf and hear of
hearing. The university offers more than 50 undergraduate
and graduate degree programs and numerous continuing
education and summer courses. |
Hard
of Hearing Advocates
245 Prospect Street
www.hohadvocates.org
The goal of HOHA is to create and implement
programs/solutions in areas where people who are
hard of hearing have undue 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. |
Hearing
Education & Awareness for Rockers
PO Box 460847
San Francisco, CA 94146
Hearing Education
and Awareness for Rockers (H.E.A.R.) is a nonprofit
health organization dedicated to raising awareness
about the dangers of repeated exposure to excessive
noise levels that can lead to permanent, sometimes
debilitating, hearing loss and tinnitus. |
Holley
Ear Institute
22101 Moross Road
Detroit, MI 48236
The Holley Ear Institute
is a consortium of volunteers, doctors, speech pathologists,
audiologists, and other volunteer professionals.
It conducts summer programs for deaf families, hearing
families with deaf children, and deaf parents with
hearing children, and deaf seniors. |
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. |
Hyperacusis
Network
444 Edgewood Drive
Green Bay, WI 54302
The Hyperacusis Network
is an international support group established to
care for individuals with collapsed tolerance to
sound (hyperacusis and recruitment). The network
helps educate the medical community and families
about this rare auditory disorder by sharing ways
to cope, providing advice on how to secure disability
assistance, and reporting on current research and/or
treatment options. |
John
Tracy Clinic
806 W. Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007
www.johntracyclinic.org
John Tracy Clinic
provides free services to parents with deaf and
hard of hearing children, birth to five years. |
Johns
Hopkins Center for Hearing and Balance
550 N. Broadway
Suite 1100
Baltimore, MD 21205
The Johns Hopkins Center
for Hearing and Balance focuses on the mechanisms
of hearing and balance and on developing better
ways to diagnose and treat hearing and balance 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
Association of the Deaf (NAD)
8630 Fenton Street, Suite 820
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3876
The National Association
of the Deaf (NAD) is the nation’s largest
consumer organization safeguarding the accessibility
and civil rights of 28 million deaf and hard of
hearing Americans in education, employment, health
care, and telecommunications. NAD focuses on grassroots
advocacy and empowerment, captioned media, deafness
related information and publications, legal assistance,
policy development and research, public awareness,
certification of interpreters, and youth leadership
development. |
National
Black Assn. for Speech-Language & Hearing
3605 Collier Road
Beltsville, MD 20705
The National Black
Association for Speech-Language and Hearing (NBASLH)
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting
the sharing of information about communication impairments
and differences among African Americans. |
National
Cued Speech Association (NCSA)
23970 Hermitage Road
Shaker Heights, OH 44122
The National Cued
Speech Association (NCSA) provides awareness and
education through instructional programs, publications,
exhibits, and conferences in the use of cued speech. |
National
Deaf Education Network and Clearinghouse
KDES PAS-6
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
The National Deaf Education
Network and Clearinghouse (formerly the National
Information Center on Deafness) is a centralized
source of accurate, up-to-date, objective information
on topics dealing with deafness and hearing loss
in the 0-21 age group. |
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. |
TDI
8630 Fenton Street
Suite 604
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3803
The mission
of TDI (formerly Telecommunications for the Deaf,
Inc.) is to promote equal access to telecommunications
and media for people who are deaf, late deafened,
hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. |
Vestibular
Disorders Association (VEDA)
PO Box 4467
Portland, OR 97208-4467
www.vestibular.org
The Vestibular Disorders Association (VEDA)
is a nonprofit organization that provides information
to people with vestibular disorders, such as labyrinthitis,
BPPV, Meniere’s disease, and perilymph fistula. |
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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