National Organizations
California Organizations
Auditory-Oral Schools
Auditory-Verbal Services
Listservs
Magazines
Assistive Technology

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (AGBell)
3417 Volta Place NW, Washington , DC 20007  
Voice/TTY, www.agbell.org
AGBell is the largest organization in the U.S. focused on the needs of children with hearing loss who use auditory/oral approaches to communicate. AGBell provides ongoing support and advocacy for parents, professionals, and other interested parties. Auditory-Verbal International is now part of AGBell.

Better Hearing Institute (BHI)
515 King Street, Suite 420, Alexandria, VA 22314
703-684-3391 Voice, 703-684-3391 TTY, www.betterhearing.org
BHI 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. BHI's new initiative, Physican Referral Development Program, hopes to build a bridge between hearing professionals and family physicians.

Deaf Research Foundation (DRF)
1225 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20005
202-289-5850 V/TTY, www.drf.org
DRF is the largest privately funded health organization committed to finding the causes of all forms of hearing loss as well as ways to prevent and treat such loss. In 1999, DRF launched its National Campaign for Hearing Health, a 5-
year public outreach, professional education, and Government relations initiative to ensure that all Americans, especially children can benefit from research breakthroughs and understand the irreplaceable value of lifelong hearing health.

HEAR NOW
6700 Washington Avenue So, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
800-648-4327. www.sotheworldmayhear.org
HEAR NOW provides hearing aids to adults and children. HEAR NOW is an organization of last resort; all other options for service must be used before HEAR NOW benefit is approved. HEAR NOW also collects used hearing aids for recycling.

House Ear Institute (HEI)
2100 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90057
213-483-4431 Voice, 213-484-2642 TTY, www.hei.org
HEI is a private, nonprofit research and professional education facility that investigates the causes of hearing loss and vestibular disorders. HEI also offers a full range of hearing tests, otologic and audiologic evaluation and treatment, hearing aid dispensing and cochlear implant services.

John Tracy Clinic
806 West Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007
213-747-2924, www.johntracyclinic.org
Providing Free services worldwide to families of preschool children with hearing loss. Free Correspondence Education program and on-site services for families of preschool children, ages birth to 5 years.

Listen-Up
Geared to the special needs of hearing impaired children and their families. A one-stop place for information, answers, help, ideas, resources, and anything else related to hearing impairment. www.listen-up.org

My Baby's Hearing
Developed by Boys Town National Research Hospital with support from NIDCD. www.babyhearing.org

National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
814 Thayer Avenue, Silver Springs, MD 20910
301-587-1788 Voice, 301-587-1789 TTY, www.nad.org
NAD safeguards the accessibility and civil rights of 28 million deaf and hard of hearing Americans in the areas or education, employment, health care, social services, and telecommunications

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
NIDCD conducts and supports research on disorders of hearing and other communication processes, including diseases affecting hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. www.nidcd.nih.gov

Oberkotter Foundation
FREE Parents' Information Kit and video, "Dreams Spoken Here", a documentary about deaf children learning to talk. Open captioned in English, Spanish, French, Chinese. Phone 877-672-5332 for your free copy. www.oraldeafed.org

Hearing Loss Association of America (formerly Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc.)
7910 Woodmont Avenue, #1200, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
301-657-2248 Voice, 301-657-2249 TTY, www.hearingloss.org
Hearing Loss Association of America is the largest consumer organization of hard of hearing people in the U.S. Hearing Loss Association of America  opens the world of communication to people with hearing loss who are committed to participating in the hearing world by providing information, education, support and advocacy.

Telecommunication Access for the Deaf and Disabled (TADD)
TADD (formerly DDTP) is a California State mandated program, which oversees the California Relay Service and distributes free telephones, telecommunications equipment and services for individuals certified as having functional limitations of hearing, vision, mobility, speech and/or interpretation of information. There are seven service centers where you may shop for your free phone. www.ddtp.org

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CALIFORNIA ORGANIZATIONS

www.hearingspeech.org , info@hearingspeech.org

The Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California enables people of all ages and backgrounds, who are hard-of-hearing or deaf, and people with speech/language disorders, to participate fully in their families, schools, workplaces, and communities.
Services: Audiology, Hearing Aid Dispensing, Speech Pathology, Advocacy, Accommodation, Deaf Education, Pre-school, Resource Center, Outreach, Counseling.

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AUDITORY-ORAL SCHOOLS

Auditory Oral School of San Francisco
1234 Divisadero, San Francisco, CA 94115
www.auditoryoralsf.org
Providing services from birth through early elementary grades. Cochlear implant program and mainstreaming support services.

Children's Choice for Hearing and Talking (CHAT) - Sacramento
9350 Kiefer Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95826
www.oraldeafed.org
Providing services from birth through early elementary grades. Cochlear implant program and mainstreaming support services.

Children's Choice for Hearing and Talking (CHAT) - San Diego
221 Pawnee Street, San Marcos, CA 92078
www.oraldeafed.org
Providing services from Infancy through early elementary grades. Cochlear implant programming and therapy.

Echo Horizon School
3430 McManus Ave., Culver City, CA 90232
www.oraldeafed.org
Mainstream program for students ages 5 through 12 years of age. Daily support in speech, language, auditory training and acedemics.

Jean Weingarten Peninsula Oral School for the Deaf
3518 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City, CA 94062
www.oraldeafed.org
Program providing services to infants through early elementary grades. Cochlear implant program and mainstream support services.

John Tracy Clinic
806 West Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 
Voice, www.johntracyclinic.org
Providing FREE services worldwide to families of preschool children with hearing loss. Free Correspondence Education program and on-site services for families of preschool children, ages birth to 5 years.

Oralingua School for the Hearing Impaired
7056 South Washington Ave., Whittier, CA 90602
www.oraldeafed.org
Serving children from infancy to 10 years of age.

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AUDITORY-VERBAL SERVICES

HEAR Center
301 East Del Mar Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
626-796-2016, www.hearcenter.org
Audiological services, speech/language therapy, diagnostic hearing testing, hearing aids. Birth to 21 years.

Karen Rothwell-Vivian, MS. Ed., MA, CCC, Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist
10623 Emerson Bend, Tustin, CA 92782
Ph: 714-573-2143
Fax: 714-573-9079
Auditory-verbal therapy for the child and family. Birth to adulthood. Aural habilitation therapy, cochlear implant expertise, and mainstream support services.

HEAR to Talk
Sylvia Rotfleisch, M.Sc.A., CED, CCC, Certified Auditory - Verbal Therapist, Trained by Dr. Ling.
547 North June St., Los Angeles, CA 90004, 323-464-3040
hear2talk@mediaone.net
Extensive expertise with cochlear implants and hearing aids, for children and adults.

Listen and Learn
Marsha A. Haines, M. A., CED, Cert. AVT, and Sandra Hamaguchi Hocker M.A.CED
4340 Stevens Creek Blvd., Ste. 107, San Jose, CA 95129
408-345-4949
Auditory-verbal therapy for the child and family. Birth to adulthood. Aural habilitation therapy, cochlear implant expertise, and mainstream support services.

SoundWave Center for Hearing Impaired Children
Victoria Deasy
1291 East Hillsdale Blvd., Suite 123
Foster City, CA 94404
Phone & Fax 650-570-6369
phoenix2hear@aol.com

Kimberly Hiddleson, Cert. AVT, SLP
1200 Quail Street, Suite 200
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-706-4525, Fax 949-706-4526
khiddleson@home.com

Nancy Sakaguchi
13651 North Avenue
Delhi, CA 95315
209-667-2499
nsak@msn.com

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LISTSERVS

Communicate with Cochlear Implant users.
To join this listserv, send an email to listserv@yorku.ca
Leave the subject line blank.
The message is Subscribe CI and your name.
To send a message to this listserv, send email to CI@yorku.ca

Communicate with Cochlear Implant users.
To join this listserv, go to www.nucleusci.com to sign up
To send a message to this listserv, send email to forum@nucleusci.com

Communicate with hard of hearing people.
Send email to majordomo@duke.edu
Leave the subject line blank.
Message is Subscribe beyond-hearing

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MAGAZINES

Hearing Health
P.O. Box 938
Ingleside, TX 78362
$24 for four issues/year
www.hearinghealthmag.com

Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss Association of America
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 1200
Bethesda, MD 20814
Join Hearing Loss Association of America for $25/year and receive 6 copies/year
www.hearingloss.org

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ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

Centrum Sound
Peter Bengtsson
572 La Conner Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
408-736-6500 www.centrumsound.com
sales@centrumsound.com

General Technologies
Joe Marin
7417 Winding Way, Fair Oaks, CA 95628
800-328-6684 www.devices4less.com
devices4less@hotmail.com

Hearing Promotions
Lorraine Fanizza
866-432-7776 www.hearpros.com
hear@hearpros.com

Weitbrecht Communications, Inc.
1-800-233-9130(V/TTY) www.weitbrecht.com
926 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401-2717
E-mail: sales@weitbrecht.com

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