LibGuides: Children and Youth who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Internet Resources

PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

Click on any of these links for publications on issues that are important to families, educators, and professionals working with children and youth who are deaf and hard of hearing.

A Guide to Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Connecticut
Published by the Department of Rehabilitation Services: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services, 2007. The GUIDE is designed for use by people with impaired hearing, their families and friends, as well as organizations and agencies that work with deaf and hard of hearing people. Included are community services through which Connecticut residents with hearing problems can find information, help, education or recreation specifically geared to their needs.
Hands & Voices - Favorite PDF Documents
Downloadable documents for parents and educators of deaf and hard of hearing children.

WEBSITES TO EXPLORE

These sites include activities and information that can be used to enhance learning for students who are deaf and hard of hearing. Clicking on any of these links will bring you to the individual website. Please click on this LibGuide's home tab for organizations and services in the State of Connecticut.

American Sign Language Browser (Michigan State University)
Center for Accessible Technology in Sign
The Center for Accessible Technology in Sign (CATS) is a joint project between the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf and the Georgia Institute of Technology. CATS is dedicated to providing accessibility to learning via sign language. CATS' goal is to enhance language, literacy and general world knowledge by providing tools which make text, captions, video, web pages, and multimedia accessible to deaf users, particularly children.
Classroom Interpreting for deaf and hard of hearing students
This site is designed to help educational teams in K – 12 settings support deaf and hard of hearing students who use educational interpreters to access education and social interaction.
Cochlear Americas
Contains information about Cochlear implants.
Deaf Culture Online
This website was created to bring you as many perspectives on the deaf and hard of hearing experience as possible. While the primary focus of this website is to promote awareness of Deaf culture.
Deaf Education - Information for Teachers
Deaf Resource Library
The Deaf Resource Library is a virtual library -- an online collection of reference material and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States; as well as deaf and hard of hearing related topics.
Described and Captioned Media Program
The mission of the Described and Captioned Media Program is to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning for students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. The DCMP is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the National Association of the Deaf.
Exploratorium Listen Project
The Exploratorium is proud to present Listen: Making Sense of Sound, a new permanent collection of interactive, ears-on exhibits. Three years in development, these experiences help visitors focus on subtle and profound aspects of hearing, experiment with new ways of listening deeply and carefully, and think about how others hear the world.
Handspeak: Sign Language Resource
Handspeak is an online resource that is useful to those who are learning ASL. It includes many articles, videos, and other resources, including an ASL dictionary.
Listen-Up Web -- Resources for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
This web site offers a one-stop place for information, answers, help, ideas, resources, and anything else related to hearing-impairment.
My Baby's Hearing
Babyhearing.org is brought to you by a team of professionals at Boys Town National Research Hospital. We are: Audiologists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Teachers of the Deaf, Geneticists, Doctors and Parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children.
Raising Deaf Kids
Here you'll find lots of information on raising a deaf or hard-of-hearing child.