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
Families Together, Inc.
- (316) 945-7747 or (888) 815-6364
- Email: connie@familiestogetherinc.org
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- (202) 337-5220
- Email: info@agbell.org
- Web: www.agbell.org
American Society for Deaf Children
- (800) 942-2732
- Email: asdc@deafchildren.org
- Web: www.deafchildren.org
Hands & Voices
- (866) 422-0422
- Email: parentadvocate@handsandvoices.org
Getting Services for Your Child
Kansas Sound Beginnings Early Hearing Detection & Intervention
- (785) 296-6135 or (800) 332-6262
Kansas Infant-Toddler Services
- (785) 296-6135 or (800) 332-6262
- Web: www.KSITS.org
Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- (785) 368-8034 or (800) 432-0698
Hartley Family Center
- (913) 588-5750
- Web: www.kumc.edu/hfc
St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf
- (636) 532-3211
- Web: www.sjid.org
Kansas School for the Deaf
- (913) 791-0573
- Web: www.ksdeaf.org
Let Them Hear Foundation Advocacy Program
Oral Deaf Education Programs
- (877) 672-5332
- Web: www.oraldeafed.org
Learning more about communication options:
- Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Sign Language Classes
- 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
Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- (785) 296-1313 or (800) 332-6262
- Email: madin@kdheks.gov
- Web: www.kdheks.gov/cshcn
Kansas Infant/Toddler Hearing Aid Loan Bank
- (913) 324-0600
- Email: atu@ksd.state.ks.us
First Hand Foundation
- (816) 201-1569
- Email: firsthandfoundation@cerner.com
Kansas Assistive Technology Cooperative (KATCO)
- (866) 465-2826
- Web: www.katco.net
Assistive Technology for Kansans Project
- (800) 526-3648
Funding Assistance for Audiology Services