Resources

Colorado:

Access to Sign Language - http://www.mya2sl.com - sign language interpreting services for the community, educational, legal and medical fields in Colorado

Beyond Sight - http://www.beyondsight.com/ - Products for the Visually Impaired in Littleton, Colorado

Colorado Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - CCDHH serves as a central resource for information as well as referrals.  www.coloradodeafcommission.com

Center for Hearing, Speech and Language - The Center for Hearing, Speech and Language is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that offers health care services of the highest quality to the people who live in the Metropolitan Denver area and Colorado Springs.   http://www.chsl.org/

Rocky Mountain ADA Center - http://www.adainformation.org/

Rocky Mountain Stroke Association - http://www.strokecolorado.org

National:

Job Accomodation Network (JAN) - http://askjan.org/soar/hear.html

Think Beyond the Label.com - Evolve your workforce! Information about hiring the disabled - http://www.thinkbeyondthelabel.com/Default.aspx 

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders  (NIDCD)  www.nidcd.nih.gov

Hearing Loop.org – Getting hard of hearing people “in the loop”   www.HearingLoop.Org

Able Data - Not-for-profit organization providing objective information about assistive technology products and rehabilitation equipment.    http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm

Aging in Place With Grace - http://www.AgingInPlaceWithGrace.com - helping seniors stay in their home with the proper support

American Academy of Audiology - Professionals dedicated to providing quality hearing care to the public www.audiology.org

Better Hearing Institute - Not-for-profit organization with the mission of educating the public and medical profession on hearing loss, its treatment and prevention.  www.betterhearing.org/

Hearing Loss Association of America (formerly Shhh) -  The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) is the nation’s leading organization representing people with hearing loss.      www.hearingloss.org

American Academy of Audiologists - The American Academy of Audiology is the world's largest professional organization of, by, and for audiologists.  The American Academy of Audiology promotes quality hearing and balance care by advancing the profession of audiology through leadership, advocacy, education, public awareness, and support of research.  www.audiology.org 

Alexander Graham Bell Association -  works to empower people who are deaf or hard of hearing to function independently by promoting universal rights and optimal opportunities to learn to use, maintain, and improve all aspects of their verbal communications, including their abilities to speak, speechread, use residual hearing, and process both spoken and written language  www.agbell.org 

American Association of the Deaf-Blind - The American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB) is a national consumer organization of, by, and for deaf-blind Americans.  www.aadb.org

National Association of the Deaf - The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is the nation's premier civil rights organization of, by and for deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the United States of America. It focuses on safeguarding the accessibility and civil rights of 28 million deaf and hard of hearing Americans in education, employment, health care, and telecommunications.  www.nad.org 

Social Security Disability Resource Center - The Social security disability resource center provides information on the federal disability benefit programs, SSD (social security disability, mandated under title II of the social security act) and SSI (supplemental security income, mandated under title 16), in addition to answering questions about social security retirement benefits and providing resource links on topics such as medicare.    http://www.ssdrc.com/