Helpful links for people with hearing loss 
   

General All-encompassing Resource List maintained by Tina Childress

Tina's Resource List (3 pages; last updated 9/8/2024)

Communication

Communicating with the Deaf/Hard-of-hearing (2-page summary explaining various communication methods used by those with hearing loss)

Create Your Own Personal Communication Card (to tell anyone of your communication needs and how to obtain services like interpreters, CART, etc.)

Law Enforcement Placard (to assist in communicating your needs to law enforcement officials)

Auditory Rehabilitation (Improve Listening & Speaking)
HearSayLW (aka Listen with Lynn; offers online tools to improve listening and/or speaking skills)

Tips to Optimize Appointments with Your Audiologist

Lip Reading (Speech Reading)
"I See What You Say" (DVD course)
"Read My Lips" (videotape course)
"How to Lip-Read" (WikiHow article)
Lipreader 4 (teaching software)
"Seeing and Hearing Speech" CD-ROM course

Sign Language
ASL Browser (Michigan State University online dictionary of ASL signs, with videos)
ASL beginning and basic signs (online videos)
American Manual Alphabet (finger-spelling) entry from Wikipedia
Signing Exact English explanation from About.com
SEE Center on Signing Exact English
ListenUp Web explanations of ASL, SEE and PSE
PSE explanation from About.com

CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) captioning in realtime for groups

ACS (Alternative Communication Services; provider)

CaptionFirst (provider)
LMH Certified Reporting (provider)
Efficiency Reporting (provider)
National Court Reporters Association (provider directory)

Hearing Loops
Scientific American article on hearing loops

Hearingloop.org (information on hearing loops for public places and homes)

Loopfinder.com (looped location finder)

Looping Check--Google Maps (step-by-step guide to check a specific venue for looping using Google Maps)