Hearing Loss

• Do You Suspect You Have a Hearing Loss?
• Profound Unilateral Hearing Loss
• You and Your Hearing Health Professional
• Using the Telephone When You Have a Hearing Loss
• Enjoying Television When You Have a Hearing Loss
• Resturant Strategies When You Have  Hearing Loss
• Otoxic Drugs that Can Cause Hearing Loss
• Communication Strategies
• Northern Virginia Statistics for Individuals with Hearing Loss (as of 2009)

Hearing Aids

• Important Tips Before Buying Hearing Aids
• Financial Assistance for Buying Hearing Aids
• Popular Brands of Hearing Aids
• Information on T-Coils

Caregivers and Parent Resources

• What Caregivers Should Know about Individuals with a Hearing Loss

Hearing Dogs

• Hearing Dog Training Programs

Cochlear Implants

• How does a Cochlear Implant Work?
• Am I Ready for a Cochlear Implant?
• How Do I Go About Getting a Cochlear Implant?
• Insurance Coverage for Your Cochlear Implant

Assistive Listening Devices and Technology

• How Assistive Listening Devices Can Improve Your Life

How to File a Closed Captioned Complaint

• Cable TV Contacts
• Local TV Station Contacts

Interpreters and Transliterators

• Tips for Working with Interpreters
• Tips for Working with Cued Speech Transliterators
  (from the National Cued Speech Association)

The following Tip Sheets are from the ADA Information Center:
           www.adainfo.org and the DOJ’s ADA website:

• Providing Sign Language Interpreters
• Working with Sign Language Interpreters in the Medical Setting
• Tax Incentives for Providing Accomodations
• Working with Individuals with Disabilities

The following Standard Practice Papers are from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID):

• Professional Sign Language Interpreters
• Team Interpreting
• Certified Deaf Interpreters
• Deaf-Blind Interpreting
• Oral Transliterating
•  Healthcare Settings
• Mental Health Settings
• Legal Settings
• Video Remote Settings

Technology Fact Sheets

Phones

•  Ameriphone VCO
• CapTel Phone
• Clarity Cordless Phones
• Crystal Tone Phone

Signaling Devices

• Alert Master Combination 
• Baby Crying Signaler
• Ringmax Amplified Ringer
• Shake Awake Vibrating Alarm Clock
• Smoke Alarms
• Sonic Alert Door Bell Signaler
• Sonic Boom Alarm Clock and Bed Shaker

Amplifiers

•  In-Line Amplifier for Phones
• Portable Telephone Amplifiers
• UniVox 2A+ Home Cushion Loop Amplifier 
• PockeTalker

Music and Television

• Music Link
• Music Link Dual
• Neck Loop and T-Links
• Television Devices

TTY Devices

• TTY Ultratec Superprint
• Uniphone TTY and Amplified Phone

Loan2Own Program