Learning About Hearing Loss
Family-friendly websites where you can learn more about hearing loss:
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
- (202) 651-5051
- Email: clerc.center@gallaudet.edu
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
- (800) 241-1044
- Email: nidcdinfo@nidcd.nih.gov
Finding Other Families Like Yours
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NC Chapter)
- (202) 337-5220
- Email: wendyk@ncagbell.org
- Web: www.ncagbell.org
American Society for Deaf Children
- (800) 942-2732
- Email: asdc@deafchildren.org
- Web: www.deafchildren.org
Hitch-Up (Hearing Impaired Toddlers & Children Have Unlimited Potential)
- Email: marabd@nc.rr.com
- Web: www.nchitchup.com
Camps for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children
- (919) 876-4327
- Email: ipayonk@gmail.com
Family Support Network for North Carolina
- (800) 852-0042
- Email: cdr@med.unc.edu
- Web: www.fsnnc.org
Hands & Voices
- (866) 422-0422
- Email: parentadvocate@handsandvoices.org
Getting Services for Your Child
North Carolina’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program
- (919) 707-5632
- Email: ncnewbornhearing@ncmail.net
North Carolina Early Intervention Program
- Eastern: (252) 237-2450; Central: (336) 824-3659; Western: (828) 432-5352
BEGINNINGS for Parents of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- (919) 850-2746
- Email: info@ncbegin.org
- Web: www.ncbegin.org
Together We Grow: North Carolina Early Intervention Services
Project Ear
- (252) 744-6128
- Email: cochlear@ecu.edu
Centers for Acquisition of Spoken Language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE)
- Durham: (919) 419-1428; Wilmington: (910) 686-4304
- Email: heskridg@unch.unc.edu
North Carolina School for the Deaf
- Western: (828) 432-5200; Web: www.ncsd.net
- Eastern: (252) 237-2450; Web: www.encsd.net
Let Them Hear Foundation Advocacy Program
Oral Deaf Education Programs
- (877) 672-5332
- Web: www.oraldeafed.org
Learning more about communication options:
- ASL University:
- John Tracy Clinic Correspondence Courses
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(213) 748-5481 or (800) 522-4582
- National Cued Speech Association
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(301) 915-8009 or (800) 459-3529
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Email: info@cuedspeech.org
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Web: www.cuedspeech.org
Helping to Pay for Services
North Carolina Assistive Technology Program
NC Health Choice
North Carolina Medicaid
North Carolina Division of Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- (800) 851-6099
Carolina Children’s Communicative Disorders Program
Funding Assistance for Audiology Services
Hearing Aid Loaner Programs