There are many service organizations that offer information to consumers with impaired hearing. Some carry leaflets or brochures and others provide referral services. Some do not have any current consumer services but are cited here to allow you to write to them regarding questions you might have about a particular problem which you feel they might best address.

• You can visit the Better Hearing Institute's World Wide Web site at www.betterhearing.org . The Institute is an umbrella-referral source for organizations which assist hard-of-hearing and deaf people.

• A free copy of Nerve Deafness and You by Gale Gardner, M.D., is also available on request from the Better Hearing Institute. To receive a copy, please call (800) EAR WELL.

• Hearing Aids: a User's Guide (1991) by Wayne J. Staab, Ph.D. (512 East Canterbury Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85022) provides important information about selecting and using a hearing aid.

• For information about the states that have local resources and help those who need hearing aids but cannot afford them, call the Hearing HelpLine -- (800) EAR WELL.

• Audiologist Richard Carmen, MA, CCC-A, has written The Consumer Handbook on Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids (Auricle Ink Publishers, August 1, 1997. Soft Cover -- $17.95). Call (800) EAR WELL for more information

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf

3417 Volta Place NW, Washington, D.C. 20007-2770

Voice: (202) 337-5220       Fax: (202) 337-8314      E-mail: agbell@aol.com

American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Inc.

One Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314

Voice: (703) 836-4444        TTY: (703) 519-1585      Fax: (703) 683-5100

 E-mail: entinfo@aol.com   web: http://www.entnet.org

American Tinnitus Association

PO Box 5, Portland, OR 92707

Voice: (503) 248-9985         Fax: (503) 248-0024        E-mail: tinnitus@ata.org

Better Hearing Institute [BHI]

PO Box 1840, Washington, DC 20013

Voice: (703) 642-0580         Toll Free Helpline: (800) 327-9355

E-mail: mail@betterhearing.org        web: http://www.betterhearing.org

The Caption Center

In Boston: 125 Western Avenue, Boston, MA 02134

Voice/TTY: (617) 492-9225    Fax: (617) 562-0590    E-mail: caption@wgbh.org

In Los Angeles: 610 N. Hollywood Way, Suite 350, Burbank, CA 91505

Voice: (818) 562-3344     TTY: (818) 562-1919     Fax: (818) 562-3388

In New York: 475 Park Avenue South, 10th FL, NY, NY 10016

Voice: (212) 545-0854       TTY: (212) 545-8546        Fax: (212) 545-0957

Cochlear Implant Club International [CICI]

PO  Box 464, Buffalo, New York 14223-0464

Voice/TTY: (716) 838-4462

International Hearing Society [I.H.S.]

16880 Middlebelt Road, Livonia, MI 48154

Voice: (734) 522-7200    Consumer Info: (800) 521-5247    Fax: (734) 522-0200

National Institute on Aging [NIA]-Information Center

PO Box 8057, Gaithersburg, MD 20898-8057

Voice: (800) 222-2225  Toll Free    TTY: (800) 222 4225    Fax: (301) 589-3014

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