Educational advocacY
TXHV Educational Resource Library. Add your email address to access a host of educational advocacy supports gathered by TXHV.
Hands & Voices
Hands & Voices FL3 Family Leadership in Language & Learning
SEE (Signing Exact English) - a sign system that matches signs with the English language
Cued Speech - a building block that helps children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing better understand spoken languages. When watching a person's mouth, many speech sounds look the same on the face even though the sounds heard are not the same.
American Sign Language/Deaf Culture
American Society for Deaf Children - bringing families together through American Sign Language
National Association of the Deaf - NAD is a civil rights organization of, by and for deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the U.S.
Visual Language and Visual Learning - Science of Learning Center at Gallaudet University on Visual Language and Visual Learning
Texas Association of the Deaf - Promoting Leadership, Growth, and Equality Among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Texans
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center - resources for deaf and hard of hearing children, their families, and the professionals that work with them
ASL Resource Guide - American Sign Language (ASL) resources
Listening and Spoken Language
Oberkotter Foundation - focus on helping caring adults support infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing to have the same listening, spoken language and literacy opportunities as their hearing peers
Alexander Graham Bell - working globally to ensure that people who are deaf and hard of hearing can hear and speak
John Tracy Clinic - provide parent-centered services locally and globally to children with hearing loss, offering families hope, guidance, and encouragement
Education
Early Childhood/Birth - 3
EHDI Pals - a listing of pediatric audiologists across the United States
NCHAM - National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management
Texas ECI Early Childhood Intervention
babyhearing.org - a resource with information about follow-up hearing testing with an audiologist
CDC brochures with questions you may want to ask professionals
IFSP/IEP/504
Texas Deaf Education Statewide Outreach Center (SOC) website - the Statewide Outreach Center (SOC) at Texas School for the Deaf works toward the improvement of educational outcomes for students who are deaf or hard of hearing in Texas
Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss - an ‘umbrella website’ for teachers of the deaf/hard of hearing
IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children
Transition
Texas Transition Resources - a site where professionals, parents, students and the community can access transition information
National Deaf Center on Post Secondary Outcomes - information, networks, and strategies to improve continuing education and training for deaf people
Texas Workforce Commission - Vocational Rehab helps people with disabilities prepare for, find or retain employment and helps youth and students prepare for post-secondary opportunities.
Deaf+
DBMAT - Deaf-Blind Multi-handicapped Association of Texas
TSBVI - Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Texas CHARGErs encourages, educates, and enriches individuals and families living with CHARGE Syndrome.
Texas Parent to Parent - committed to improving the lives of Texas children and adults with disabilities, chronic and mental health conditions and other health care needs
Navigate Life Texas - Resources for kids with disabilities and special needs
Other
Hearing Loss Association of America - the nation’s leading organization representing consumers with hearing loss
American Hearing Research Foundation - funds groundbreaking research to understand our hearing and balance functions, and educate people on how to prevent, identify, preserve and restore these