Resources for More Information

For more information on hearing loss, hearing aid styles and technology the following are organizations that have additional information.

HealthGrades
Healthgrades.com (www.healthgrades.com) is a commercial website where you can search for physicians as well as inquire about board certification and medical deficiencies.  Cost for a search that returned 20 results was about $7.00.

American Academy of Audiology
This site has a no-charge "find an audiologist" link at audiology.org/consumer/find/.
8300 Greensboro Drive, Suite 750
McLean, VA 22102
(800) 222-2336 (v/tty)
(703) 610-9022 (v/tty)
(703) 610-9005 (f)
Email: molek@audiology.org
Website: www.audiology.org

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
The ASHA web site ProSearch is the Online Directory of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Programs.  This online directory contains valuable information about more than 4,000 programs that employ audiologists and speech-language pathologists who hold the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).  You can visit ASHA's online referral service, or contact ASHA by phone or e-mail:
10801 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
Phone: 800-638-8255 or 301-897-8682 (Voice or TTY)
Email: actioncenter@asha.org
Website: www.asha.org

American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
1 Prince Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-3357
(703) 836-4444 (v)
(703) 519-1585 (tty)
(703) 683-5100 (f)
Email: info@entnet.org
Website: www.entnet.org

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Information Clearinghouse
1 Communications Ave
Bethesda, MD 20892-3456
(800)241-1044 (v)
(800)241-1055 (tty)
Self-Help for Hard of Hearing People
7910 Woodmont Avenue Suite 1200
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-657-2248 (v)
301-657-2249 (tty)
301-913-9413 (f)
Email: national@shhh.org

HEAR NOW
A program of the Starkey Hearing Foundation that helps to distribute hearing aids to financially needy persons.
6700 Washington Avenue South
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
800-648-4327
Website: www.sotheworldmayhear.org

Theater and Movie Information
Two websites that list theaters by state and films that are available with captions.
ncam.wgbh.org/mopix/nowshowing.html
www.insightcinema.org/

There are also movies available as DVDs with captions.  This website has a series of "classic films" available with captioning: www.sivideo.com/caption.htm.

Other Sites of Interest

National Campaign for Hearing Health: www.hearinghealth.net
Sight & Hearing Information: www.sightandhearing.org
Government Health Finder: www.healthfinder.gov
Better Hearing: www.betterhearing.org
NIH National Library of Medicine's tutorials and select hearing loss topic: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html
CDC's Trends in Health and Aging Hearing and Vision: www.cdc.gov/search.do?action=search&queryText=Trends+in+Vision+and+Hearing+and+Aging&.x=11&.y=12

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