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A-Z to Deafblindness provides information and resources for the deafblind.
Action on Hearing Loss – formerly the Royal National Institute of the Deaf (RNID) [UK]
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) helps families, health care providers, and education professionals understand childhood hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis and intervention. Through advocacy, education, research, and financial aid, AG Bell helps to ensure that every child and adult with hearing loss has the opportunity to listen, talk, and thrive. Financial aid programs are available for families at every stage of raising their hearing-disabled child. Updated
- Financial Aid Programs and Scholarships
- Additional Scholarship Program Information Fact Sheet (229 kb .pdf) In addition to the scholarships provided by AG Bell, there are a number of resources each student should consider.
- AG Bell College Scholarships
ALS Pah! an e-zine for American Sign Language students and teachers
American Auditory Society
American Sign Language Fingerspelling dictionary, converters, quiz
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
American Tinnitus Association (ATA) ATA is a global leader in the effort to find a cure for tinnitus. We bring together patients, researchers, healthcare professionals, industry partners and lawmakers to develop tinnitus management tools and fund vital tinnitus research.
ALS Online Lessons
Apple® Accessibility Features Vision built into all Macintosh computers provides adjustable keyboard, an ergonomic mouse, CloseView screen magnification software, Easy Access system software (StickyKeys, SlowKeys, MouseKeys), electronic documentation, key-repeat disable, text-to-speech synthesis and voice recognition (PlainTalk), sticky mouse, and visual alert cues. The VoiceOver spoken English interface for Mac OS X is a fully integrated, built-in screen reader technology providing access to the Macintosh through speech, audible cues, and keyboard navigation.
Assistech Special Needs products for special needs such as deaf and hard of hearing, blind and low vision, medical health, mobility and dexterity, and more
Auditory Disabilities from WebAIM describes the types of auditory disabilities.
Canadian Hearing Society [Ontario, Canada]
CaptionSync from Automatic Sync Technologies. Funded in part by an SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant, AST pioneered the most cost-efficient, high quality, automatic captioning service available today. CaptionSync delivers all time-coded captioning file formats to you in minutes all from one, single submission. [UK]
Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) provides all persons who are deaf or hard of hearing awareness of and equal access to communication and learning through the use of free captioned educational media and supportive collateral materials
Deaf Blogs Updated
- The Limping Chicken, The world’s most popular deaf blog! Laying eggs since 2012 [UK] New
13 Cool New Gadgets to Help With Hearing
Deafness in Disguise: Concealed Hearing Devices of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Hearing aids: How to choose the right one from the Mayo Clinic New
What are digital hearing aids? from the ReSound New
Types of Hearing Aids from the FDA New
Gallaudet University: Types of Financial Aid This is a short listing of financial resources that you can use to seek out funding for your Gallaudet education. Gallaudet University is the world leader in liberal education and career development for deaf and hard of hearing students. The University enjoys an international reputation for its outstanding programs and for the quality of the research it conducts on the history, language, culture, and other topics related to deaf people. Updated
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) formerly known as Self Help for Hard of Hearing (SHHH) People, Inc.
Maryland Relay a telecommunications service helping people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind or speech disabled to easily communicate through TTY (text telephone) with anyone using a standard phone
Media Access Group at WGBHdevelops and distributes captioning, video description, and MoPix means of access to movies and television for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. WGBH started addressing access barrier challenges back in the seventies, when they invented closed captioning; that was just the beginning. Updated
"We continue to pioneer new solutions to ensure that everyone can benefit from innovations in media. To make media more accessible, we're setting captioning standards on every new device and technology that comes along and have developed free software to let anyone caption anything. We've given people with visual impairments the chance to experience an eclipse in real time through descriptive narration (another WGBH invention), enjoy TV via audio descriptions, and access the content that informs our everyday lives."
National Captioning Institute
National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (NCAEM) For students with sensory, physical, cognitive, or learning differences and their teachers, accessible instructional materials (AIM) may open doors to teaching and learning that ordinary print-based materials have closed. Accessible instructional materials or AIM are specialized formats of curricular content that can be used by and with students who are unable to read or use standard print materials. Specialized formats include braille, audio, large print, and digital text. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) includes a requirement that schools provide AIM in a timely manner to K–12 students who need them for participation and achievement.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), Voice, Speech, Language
Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc.
Oticon hearing care solutions
List of Languages Updated
Sign Language Dictionary Online
Sign Languages of the World, Search by Country from Gallaudet University Library
SignWriting
Tinnitus (ringing in the ear)
Surgical implants and nonsurgical solutions: Cochlear Implant (CI), Electric Acoustic Stimulation (EAS), Bone Conduction Implant (BONEBRIDGE), and Bone Conduction System (ADHEAR) New

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Policies for Denmark as of 8 May 2017. Agreement on the use of open standards for software in the public sector
Special educational support provided by the Danish Ministry of Education. The special educational support must ensure that pupils and students with disabilities can educate on an equal footing with other pupils and students.
European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education: Denmark the Danish national information and resource centre on disabilities and assistive technology. (in Danish and English)
Danish Disability Council, the Danish NGO-Umbrella (in English and mostly Danish)
Danish Web-award "Det Gyldne @" (The Golden @) includes WEB accessibility as a criterion. The award is related to a conference on accessible web-design held on November 10. 1999 in Copenhagen. During February 2000 a working group of experts and users are evaluating the accessibility of the websites of 100 big Danish corporations. The corporations are divided into 10 different categories. The basis for the examination is the guidelines on accessible web content from the W3C "Web Accessibility Initiative". In addition, the websites are rated on a 1-5 scale by blind and low vision users. The practical testing is being done using the screenreader (JAWS) and speech-synthesis on one hand and a magnifierprogram (ZOOMTEXT) on the other. Shell Denmark was awarded the Golden @ as the "most accessible web-site for disabled people" among the 100 biggest corporations in Denmark on March 24, 2000. But 14 days after getting the award Shell Denmark presented a thoroughly reworked website, and the new website far less accessible than the one nominated! (in Danish)
The Equal Opportunities Centre for Disabled Persons monitors developments in the equalisation of disabled people and non-disabled people. Moreover the Centre's task is to draw the authorities' attention to areas and situations where there are not equal opportunities for disabled people and non-disabled people. The Centre is also to publish information on the subject of equal opportunities for disabled persons in the Danish society.
Disabled Peoples Organisations Denmark (DPOD) is the umbrella organization for 34 Danish disability organizations. DPOD works to support persons with disabilities to live a life like everyone else. Updated
Digitization Agency [in English] – The goal is a more digitally publicly Denmark that optimizes and frees up resources and modernize services for citizens and businesses. Specifically, for example, 80 per cent. citizens and companies written communications with the public be digital in 2015 and welfare technology solutions will be a natural part of everyday life in the coming years.
Foreningen af Unge med Gigt (FNUG) – Danish Organisation of Youth with Rheumatism
The Accessibility Label Scheme (in Danish "Foreningen Tilgængelighed for Alle", English, and German). Access Denmark has a team that has visited all the places, buildings, or outdoor areas of interest to travelers, customers, and visitors, and prepared photos and information in fact sheets, so that you can make an informed decision and plan what is necessary for you before you decide to go. Updated
Gigforeningen – Danish Arthritis Society
Study and Work Abroad in Denmark information for students with disabilities
Wheelrace (in Danish) an educational game for school children aged 11-14 to teach kids what life is like when you are bound to a wheelchair. Wheelrace is made by Kongo Interactive and Guppyworks. [Denmark]

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