Library Services
Deaf Services
Links to Internet Sites about Deafness
Electronic
Deaf Education Network
A Virtual Community for families with deaf and hard of hearing children,
designed to support families and to help them understand deafness.
National
Association of the Deaf (NAD)
Established in 1880, NAD is the oldest and largest constituency organization
safeguarding the accessibility and civil rights of 28 million deaf and
hard of hearing Americans in education, employment, health care, and telecommunications.
Hearing
Loss Web
Information for people who have hearing loss, but are not members of the
traditional Deaf community, including people who consider themselves to
be hearing impaired, hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral deaf.
Subject-Based
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Internet Resources (Rochester Institute of
Technology Library) A resource which offers a tremendous wealth of information
on anything related to deafness and hearing loss.
NPR - An Exploration of Deaf Culture in America discusses deaf culture,
its history, traditions, its challenges and its controversies.
Tools and services - provided by Atlanta School for the Deaf - tools which make text, captions, video, web pages, and multimedia accessible to deaf users, particularly children.
Impact - is a California statewide all-volunteer, non-profit organization of parents, teachers and professionals serving deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Established in 1986 by 12 parents, IMPACT has a current membership of over 400 and is supported and encouraged by a host of organizations that serve the deaf community.
DeafWiK is a collaborative project to complete an encyclpedia for deaf and hard of hearing people.