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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Collection

The Merriam Park Branch Library maintains a collection of resources concerning American Sign Language, Hearing Loss, Coping Strategies, and Deaf Heritage. Materials in the collection include books, close-captioned videos, ASL videos, videos about deaf and hard-of-hearing issues, and signed children's books.

The collection began with a transfer of materials from the library of the Metro Regional Service Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People.

Materials are available in person or through interlibrary loan, to anyone with a current library card from a public library in Minnesota.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Web Links

Minnesota and the Twin Cities

CSD of Minnesota
CSD is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing broad-based services, ensuring public accessibility and increasing public awareness of issues affecting deaf and hard of hearing individuals.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Division of the Minnesota Department of Human Services
Information and materials about hearing loss, and assistance to deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing individuals and family members. Includes links to programs and services in Minnesota.

Lifetrack Resources Family Support Connection
Provides a variety of support services to families of children who have been recently diagnosed as deaf or hard of hearing.

Minnesota Relay
The program that provides telecommunications assistance directly to Minnesota's deaf, hard-of-hearing, speech or mobility impaired citizens.

TCDeaf.com
Information, news, and other information relevant to the Twin Cities Deaf Community.

Telephone Equipment Distribution Program
Minnesota program that provides special telephone equipment to people who are hard of hearing, deaf, or have a speech or mobility impairment.

National Organizations and Other Resources

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Resource center on hearing loss, featuring online brochures, advocacy information, and links to other resources and organizations.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
The credentialing association for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. This site includes information about speech and language development and disorders, hearing and balance, and links to other related groups. The site also includes career information and other links for students interested in this field.

Cochlear Implant Association
News, advocacy, and education links from the non-profit organization for cochlear implant recipients, their families, professionals, and other individuals interested in cochlear implants.

Deaf Resource 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.

Gallaudet University
Graduate and undergraduate programs for deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people.

Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Links about deafness and hearing loss, communication, assistive devices, the law, careers, and more.

League for the Hard of Hearing
This site features information about the not-for-profit hearing rehabilitation organization, as well as articles and other information about hearing loss, assistive listening devices, cochlear implants, and tinnitus.

SHHH - Self Help for Hard of Hearing People
Web site for the association representing consumers who are hard of hearing. Information available includes self-assessments, hearing aid selection tips, and a section of resources relating to hearing loss.

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