Learning About Hearing Loss
Family-friendly websites where you can learn more about hearing loss:
University of Tennesee — Center on Deafness
- (865) 974-0607
Tennessee Directory of Services for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- (800) 342-3262
- Email: library.hearingimpaired@nashville.gov
- Web: www.tndeaflibrary.nashville.gov
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
- (202) 651-5051
- Email: clerc.center@gallaudet.edu
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders
- (800) 241-1044
- Email: nidcdinfo@nidcd.nih.gov
Finding Other Families Like Yours
Family Voices — Tennessee Disability Coalition
- (888) 643-7811
- Email: familyvoices@tndisability.org
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- (202) 337-5220
- Email: info@agbell.org
- Web: www.agbell.org
American Society for Deaf Children
- (800) 942-2732
- Email: asdc@deafchildren.org
- Web: www.deafchildren.org
Hands & Voices
- (866) 422-0422
- Email: parentadvocate@handsandvoices.org
Tennessee Support & Training for Exceptional Parents, Inc.
- (423) 639-0125
- Email: information@tnstep.org
- Web: www.tnstep.org
Getting Services for Your Child
Tennessee Newborn Hearing Screening Program
- (615) 262-6160
- Email: jacque.cundall@state.tn.us
Tennessee Early Intervention System (Part C)
- (800) 852-7157
- Email: jamie.kilpatrick@state.tn.us
Tennessee School for the Deaf
- Knoxville: (865) 579-2500; Jackson: (731) 423-5705
- Web: www.tsdeaf.org
Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center: National Center for Childhood Deafness and
Communication Center
- (615) 936-5000
Let Them Hear Foundation Advocacy Program
Oral Deaf Education Programs
- (877) 672-5332
- Web: www.oraldeafed.org
Learning more about communication options:
- ASL University:
- John Tracy Clinic Correspondence Courses
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(213) 748-5481 or (800) 522-4582
- National Cued Speech Association
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(800) 459-3529
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Email: info@cuedspeech.org
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Web: www.cuedspeech.org
Helping to Pay for Services
Children’s Special Services (CSS): Tennessee Department of Health
- (615) 741-7353
- Email: jacqueline.johnson@state.tn.us
Hearing Aid Loaner Bank — Friends of Tennessee Babies with Special Needs
- (865) 789-2409
- Web: www.fotbabies.org
Tennessee Technology Access Centers
- Memphis: (901) 678-1489; Web: http://coe.memphis.edu/act
- Jackson: (731) 668-3888; Web: www.starcenter.tn.org
- Nashville: (615) 248-6733; Web: www.tac.ataccess.org
- Chattanooga: (423) 698-8528; Web: www.signalcenters.org
- Knoxville: (865) 219-0130; Web: www.discoveret.org/ettac
Funding Assistance for Audiology Services