Learning About Hearing Loss
Family-friendly websites where you can learn more about hearing loss:
New Jersey Division of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- (609) 984-7281 or (800) 792-8339 (in NJ only)
New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center: Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Awareness Program
- (800) 792-8322
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
New Jersey Statewide Parent to Parent
- (800) 372-6510
- Email: parent2parent@spannj.org
Family Voices of New Jersey
- (800) 654-7726 ext. 110
- Email: familyvoices@spannj.org
Family Support Center of New Jersey
- (732) 528-8080 or (800) 372-6510
- Web: www.fscnj.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
New Jersey Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program
- (609) 292-5676 or (609) 984-1343
- Email: ehdi@doh.state.nj.us
New Jersey Early Intervention System
- (888) 653-4463
- Email: terry.harrison@doh.state.nj.us
New Jersey Pediatric Hearing Healthcare Directory
Special Child Health Services Case Management Unit
- (609) 777-7778
- Email: bonnie.teman@doh.state.nj.us
New Jersey Department of Education — Office of Special Education
- (609) 292-0147
- Email: therese.sheehan@doe.state.nj.us
ACCESS — Behavioral Health Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- (973) 977-6690
- Email: accessnj@aol.com
- Web: www.stjosephshealth.org (click on the “Health Services Search” box to
find ACCESS)
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
Grace’s Law
New Jersey Family Care
- (800) 701-0710
- Web: www.njfamilycare.org
Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund
- (609) 292-0600 or (800) 335-3863
Funding Assistance for Audiology Services
Hearing Aid Loaner Programs