Hearing or speech impairment - resources

Alternative Names:
Resources - hearing or speech impairment

Information:

RESOURCES FOR HEARING IMPAIRMENT OR SPEECH IMPAIRMENT

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
10801 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD. 20852
Voice or TTY -- (800) 638-8255
http://www.asha.org/www.asha.org

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institutes of Health
31 Center Drive, MSC 2320
Bethesda, MD USA 20892-2320
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/www.nidcd.nih.gov

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
3417 Volta Place, NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 337-5220
http://www.agbell.org/www.agbell.org

American Academy of Audiology
8300 Greensboro Dr., Suite 750
McLean, Virginia 22102
(800) AAA-2336
(703) 790-8466
http://www.audiology.com/www.audiology.com

SEE ALSO:
blindness - resources

GENERAL INFORMATION:
Additional resources can be found through local libraries, your health care provider, and the yellow pages under "social service organizations."

Review Date: 8/13/2002
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