Suggested Sites

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Illinois Specific

Illinois Sound Beginnings
From the University of Chicago at Illinois, provies information for families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Self Help

Hear Now
National program provides assistance to individuals and families with limited financial resources. HEAR NOW maintains the National Hearing Aid Bank, which provides new and reconditioned hearing aids to deaf and hard of hearing people who cannot afford them. These hearing aids are distributed through hearing health care providers in comminutes nationwide. HEAR NOW also has a cochlear implant program that raises funds to provide cochlear implant and related service to both adults and children. In addition, HEAR NOW has developed the National Hearing Assistance Directory (NHAD), which provides state-by-state listings of financial and social resources offered through government agencies and private organizations.

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc.
A lifelong resource, support network, and advocate for listening, learning, talking, and living independently with hearing loss. Through publications, outreach, training, scholarships, and financial aid, AG Bell promotes the use of spoken language and hearing technology. AG Bell financial aid offers support and resources for people of all ages that have suffered hearing loss. It also offers a comprehensive list of other organizations that offer free or financial assistance for hearing technology, such as hearing aids and TTY technology.

American Tinnitus Association
Help for people with ringing in the ears, or those who hear whooshing or buzzing or chirping or pulsing. Help for people who have tinnitus, the perception of noise in the ears or head when no external sound is present.

Association of Late Deafened Adults (ALDA)
ALDA works collaboratively with other organizations around the world serving the needs of late-deafened people and extends a welcome to everyone, late deafened or not, who supports our goals.

Auditory-Verbal International, Inc.®
AVI is a private non-profit international membership organization whose principal objective is to promote listening and speaking as a way of life for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Better Hearing Institute
BHI is a 501(c)3, not-for-profit corporation which was created in 1973 to promote the benefits of better hearing. Perhaps BHI is best known as the producer of Public Service Announcements (PSA). Nearly 100 Hollywood celebrities, sports personalities, political leaders, business leaders and other prominent BHI spokespersons have come forward to share their hearing loss story and the choices they have made for better hearing.

Hear-It
This web site has been established to increase public awareness of hearing impairment. Ten per cent of the world's population suffer from hearing problems, yet only one out of five who would benefit from hearing aids actually use them. 'Hear-it' deals with almost any issue concerning hearing impairment.

Hearing Loss Links
With many helpful articles and links to find the information you need on the web about hearing loss.

Listen-Up
Geared to the special needs of hearing impaired children and their families. A one-stop place for information on the web and helpful articles with answers, help, ideas, resources, links to other sites, and nearly anything else related to hearing impairment.

National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
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 of Heath for Seniors
Older Adults and Hearing Loss video of examination with captions.

Self Help for the Hard of Hearing People
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People is the nation’s largest organization for people with hearing loss. SHHH exists to open the world of communication for people with hearing loss through information, education, advocacy and support.

WebMD.com Hearing Loss Resource Pages
An excellent place to start to learn about the causes of hearing loss, and what you can do to hear better.

Civic/Service Organizations

Many community service organizations receive charitable donations to purchase hearing aids and other devices for low income deaf and hard of hearing people. Clubs often recondition hearing aids and donate them to needy individuals. Many of these organizations are listed in your telephone directory.

Organizations that typically offer this type of assistance are as follows:

-National Easter Seal Society http://www.easterseals.com/
-March of Dimes http://www.marchofdimes.com/home.asp
-Telephone Pioneers of America http://www.telephone-pioneers.org/
-Lions Clubs International http://www.lionsclubs.org/
-Kiwanis Clubs http://www.kiwanis.org/
-Rotary Clubs http://www.rotary.org/
-Sertoma Clubs http://www.sertoma.org/
-Optimist Clubs http://www.optimist.org/

Professional Organizations

Academy of Dispensing Audiologists
The Academy of Dispensing Audiologists®, founded in 1976, provides valuable resources to the private practitioner in audiology and to other audiology professionals who have responsibility for the concerns of quality patient care and business operation.

Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology
The primary purpose of ARA is to promote excellence in hearing care through the provision of comprehensive rehabilitative and habilitative services.

American Academy of Audiology
The American Academy of Audiology is the world's largest professional organization of, for and by audiologists. The active membership of more than 9,600 audiologists join together to provide the highest quality of hearing healthcare service to children and adults described by our national slogan "Caring for America's Hearing."

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 115,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.

International Hearing Society
The International Hearing Society (IHS) is the nonprofit, professional association that represents Hearing Instrument Specialists® in the United States, Canada, Japan and several other countries. IHS members are engaged in the practice of testing human hearing and selecting, fitting and dispensing hearing instruments.