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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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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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