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Specialities and Specialists that deal with disorders of hearing
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Some guidelines for talking to someone with a hearing loss
- Travel Tips for Hearing Impaired People from Peter J. Casano, M.D. Ear, Nose, and Throat Information Center
- The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf is a nonprofit membership to empower persons who are hearing impaired to function independently by promoting optimal opportunities to learn to use residual hearing, speech, and speechreading.
- The
Minnesota State Academy For The Deaf
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The League for the Hard of Hearing is a private not-for-profit rehabilitation agency for infants, children and adults who are hard of hearing and deaf, licensed by the State of New York Department of Health
- Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. a non-profit, educational organization, is dedicated to the well-being of people of all ages and communication styles who do not hear well. SHHH is the largest international consumer organization of its kind.
- Especially for Kids
- There are many discussion forums to support persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, including:
- BEYOND-HEARING@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU
- DEAF-L@SIUCVMB.BITNET
- DEAFSPORTS@GALLUX.GALLAUDET.EDU
- SERVICE-DOGS@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU
- alt.support.hearing-loss
- Maintained by the International Federation for Pastoral Care to Hearing Impaired Persons, CHURCHEAR, is an international website dealing with hard of hearing and late deafened
persons in religious congregations. In Danish, German, English, and Swedish.
- Hearing Concern is a website put online by Ann Perrett who has acquired deafness and developed the site to "help others who find themselves in the same situation."
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- Hearing Loss Simulator by Scott Bradley and Eric Christenson, simulates what various hearing losses may sound like to the individual with a hearing loss. The program requires at least 4000K of available RAM and a MAC system 7.1 or higher. An external speaker system or good quality earphones are also necessary. If you have these available, this program is well-worth the time it takes to download!
- This audiometer simulator developed by Scott Bradley is a hypercard stack which needs a MAC system. It provides students with unlimited computer access to audiometers.
- A significant resource from Roy F. Sullivan, Ph.D of Video Otoscopy. containing many clinical illustrations that represent cases seen in routine audiological practice with an essentially medically-referred adult patient population..
- From Baylor University's Grand Rounds proceedings of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences Department
Considerations in the Evaluation of the Hearing Impaired Child by Judith J. Owens, MD
- Is My Baby's Hearing Normal?from Peter J. Casano, M.D. Ear, Nose, and Throat Information Center
- Screening for hearing disabiliy from the 1996 Report of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
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Remote hearing diagnosis
- A 5-Minute Hearing Test especially for seniors, from Peter J. Casano, M.D. Ear, Nose, and Throat Information Center
- TWA.Lavg Calculator hypercard stack developed by Scott Bradley which calculates hearing loss and noise exposure over time.
- Percent Handicap Calculator hypercard stack developed by Scott Bradley
- How to use an Otoscope
- Karen McComas and Jay Luker have developed a virtual Audiology Clinic at Diversity University where students can practice giving hearing tests to "virtual patients." The virtual Audiiology Clinic is used by McComas and Lucker in conjunction with their academic and clinical courses, however it is available for use by anyone. Visitors are always welcome. For more information about accessing the MOO, help documents are available from Marshall University.
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- General Resources
- Hearing aids
- History of hearing aids
- From Baylor University's Grand Rounds proceedings of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences Department Update on Hearing Aids by Michael G. Stewart, MD
- From "Dr. Quinn's Online Textbook of Otolaryngology" which consists of Grand Rounds proceedings of the Department of Otolaryngology of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston:
- Hearing aid checklist hypercard stack made available by Scott Bradley
- Hearing Aids and Assistive Listening Aids by Omer Zak.
- Hear Now a program for donating old hearing aids
- Other assistive listening devices
- Speech Reading
- Cued speech
- Sign Language
- The Interpretor's Network
- American Sign Language
Linguistic Research Project, a collaborative research project, involving researchers at Boston University, Dartmouth College, Rutgers University, and Gallaudet University.
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A basic dictionary of ASL terms
- Software available
- SLLING-L@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU and TERPS-L@HUMBERC.ON.CA are discussion forums about sign language
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Signwriting, a writing system which uses visual symbols
to represent the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of signed languages, can record any signed language in the world. Invented by Valerie Sutton in Denmark in 1974, Sign Writing makes it possible to have books, newspapers, magazines, dictionaries and literature written in signs. The system can be written by hand or typed by computer.
- Surgery
- For conductive hearing loss
- From Baylor University's Grand Rounds proceedings of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences Department Issues in Stapedectomy by Douglas D. Backous, MD
- For sensori-neural hearing loss - Cochlear implants
- Aural Rehabilitation
- Examples of non-profit, auditory-verbal/auditory-oral programs.
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- Web page of the Johns Hopkins Center for Hearing and Balance. The goal of the Center is to perform basic and clinical research, train basic and clinical investigators, and disseminate research results and relevant information to the medical community and the general public. Research is centered on auditory (hearing) and vestibular (balance) function in normal subjects and in patients with hearing and balance disorders, and on rehabilitation.
- abstracts maintained by The Association for Research in Otolaryngology, an international association of scientists and physicians dedicated to scientific research efforts involving the ear, nose, head, neck and related neural structures.
- The Oregon Hearing Research Center dedicated to studying the inner ear and related components of hearing, with the objective of producing clinical methods and technology that physicians and the medical products industry can incorporate in practical treatments for hearing problems.
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Recent Research on Hereditary Deafness from the Med Help International online library
- Gallaudet University's Technology Assessment Program (TAP) a research group focusing primarily on communication technologies and services that eliminate communication barriers traditionally faced by deaf and hard of hearing people.
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- Deaf Linx - a resource for information on deafness, deaf culture, American Sign Languge (ASL) and related topics.
- Deafness - top web resources on Deafness
- Searchwave maintained by Paul Dybala, contains links to websites, and articles on newsgroups and email listservs.
- Deaf/Hard of Hearing Resources And General Education Resources by K. Beasley, teacher of deaf/hard of hearing students.
- Audiology Classifieds provides information about jobs in audiology.
- The Hearing Help maintained by Glen Meier, has articles and online brochures on hearing, hearing loss, hearing aids, and ways to and ways to improve your communication skills.
Tammie Adkins' Educational Audiology Association Newsletter Internet Sites of Interest is an ongoing column that provides an organized list of valuable audiology links.
Otolaryngology Resources on the Internet from Ronald Kuppersmith at Baylor contains links to many good resources.
John Shea's
Otology Online
Deaf and Hearing Impaired - Licensed Practical Nurse Guide: Resources for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired.
Karen Nakamura's
Deaf Resource Library is meant as a central site for Deaf related topics as part of her dissertation project in cultural anthropology. Contains many good links and includes information about Japanese sign language
An extensive library on
Internet resources related to deafness
Deaf Magazine on the WWW
Clinic hour calculations for audiology hypercard stack developed by Scott Bradley
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's
Audiology FTP site by Scott Bradley
DEAF-L FAQ WWW Site -
all you wanted to know about Deafness.
Auditory Stimulation of the Cochlea is the product of a joint effort between the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, advised by Kenneth Donnelly. (To run this program you must be using Netscape 2.0 and the Shockwave Plug-in from Macromedia).
The virtual medical center's
Otolaryngology, Otorhinolaryngology & Ophthalmology Center
An extensive list of Hearing Health Resources on the Internet by Sound Concept
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Web Links sponsored by the National Discount Battery Service.
Hearing Impairment
James' Home Page is for all hard of hearing children and parents of newly diagnosed Hard of Hearing Children.
Handronix
includes an online hearing test,.Virtual Audiology Journal, links to other audiology-related sites, and more.
Jamie Berke's
Deafness/Hard of Hearing from the Mining Company - extensive links to hearing and deafness resources
Where do we go from Hear?
Marion Downs
National Center for Infant Hearing, a center for the coordination of statewide systems for screening, diagnosis, and intervention for newborns and infants with hearing loss.
Cynthia Hurtig's Audiology Links is an extensive page with links to many resources in Canada and elsewhere.
Informational Handouts on Deafness from Gallaudet University.
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lasted modified June 4, 2011