Hearing Resources on the Internet

General Web Sites on Speech, Language and Hearing

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

ASHA is the professional and scientific association for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally.

 

Net Connections to Communication Disorders and Science.

Rich collection of sites assembled by Judith Kuster, Speech Clinic Director at Minnesota State University.

 

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Information about speech, language and hearing research, events, new and check out the consumer information available

 

Cleveland State University Library's Speech and Hearing Subject Tree.

An interesting idea in the arrangement of links in various subjects. 

 

Web Resources on Hearing and Hearing Disorders

CDC's Developmental Disabilities--Hearing Impairment.

 

CDC Office of Health and Safety's Hearing Conservation Program.

 

OHSA's Noise & Hearing Conservation.

Standards, directives and guidelines on occupational hearing conservation.

American Academy of Audiology.

 

Academy of Dispensing Audiologists.

Divided into links for professionals and for consumers, the latter including such features as Ask an Audiologist and Find an Audiologist.

 

Acoustical Society of America.

Includes materials on standards, education and links to sounds.

Audiology Places of Interest on the Net. (British)

 

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf.

Check out their "Check List" for parents to check their newborns' hearing.

Deaf Source:

"An Internet Guide for Helping Professionals Working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals."

The Vestibular Disorder Association.

Support groups and varieties of vestibular diseases, conferences.

Web Resources on Speech and Language and their Associated Disorders

UCSC Perceptual Science Laboratory.

Reports on speech, lip-reading, perception and cognition research.

Speech Physiology and Motor Control.

Seton Hall University links to journals, conferences, organizations and its own current research projects.

 

National Aphasia Organization.

A nonprofit organization that promotes public education, research, rehabilitation and support services to assist people with aphasia and their families. Very oriented to the lay public.

 

Central Auditory Processing Disorders Web pages.

Tests, 'at risk' behaviors, resource lists.

More For Consumers and Patients

MEDLINEplus.

The National Library of Medicine's Web site for consumers. An evaluated list of links for more than 200 disorders, conditions and health and wellness topics, including many speech and hearing disorders.

healthfinder™

U.S. government's links to dependable consumer health information from the Department of Health and Human Services. Easy-to-use menus lead the end-user to information on many different disorders. Try searching for 'Deafness' or 'Speech Disorder'.

Assessments.

A parent concisely summarizes purpose and content of various speech/hearing tests in lay language for other parents.

Speech-Hearing Impairment Camps.

A clickable map of the US and Canada with other search options for locating kids' camps for children with special needs.

 

Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc.

Information on adaptive technologies.

Links to Hearing Aid Manufacturers

• American Ear 

• AVR BTE, and BTE .

• Bernafon-Maico

• Decibel ITC only.

• Elkon India-based company. ITCs (their site calls them In the Kanal) and BTEs only.

• General Hearing

• Lori Medical

• Magnatone Does not make BTEs.

• Micro-Tech

• Oticon

• Phonic Ear Combination FM receiver/BTE hearing aid.

• Resound

• Rexton

• Siemens. 

• Starkey

• Unitron

• Widex

An increasing number of manufacturers are offering "fully digital programmable hearing aids." These hearing aids are wearable mini-computers capable of monitoring the audiological environment. 

• Bernafon-Maico

• Miracle Ear

• Oticon

• Phonak

• Resound

• Siemens. 

For people who are physically unable to use regular hearing aids, body aids are still available, although few manufacturers are offering them. However, these are not the bulky body aids of yesteryear. Today's body aids are slimmer and more attractively designed.

• Elkon India-based company. Site calls them "body-level" aids.

• Magnatone 

• Rexton. 

• Widex

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