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CDC Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Program - The EHDI program at CDC supports states and territories in developing and implementing EHDI tracking and surveillance systems. These systems help state EHDI programs make sure that babies get the hearing screening, follow-up, and early intervention services they need.

Policy revision of the AAP policy posted in 2003. Clinical Report Hearing Assessment in Infants and Children: Recommendations Beyond Neonatal Screening

Professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 127,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Study (MADDS) was the first U.S., population-based epidemiologic study of the prevalence of intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, hearing loss, vision impairment, and epilepsy in school-aged children. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) staff have written scientific papers using information from MADDS. These papers look at such topics as how common autism spectrum disorders are and what causes hearing loss in children. You can see a list of these papers (starting in 1990) by using the keyword search on the NCBDDD publications Web page. Choose "MADDS (Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Study)" in the keyword box on the search page. You can choose whether you want the list to be sorted by author or by date

Promote and provides equal access to communication and learning for students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Provides training resources for new and experienced captioning vendors-the Captioning Key for Educational Media-and description vendors-the Description Key for Educational Media. The DCMP is an idea that works thanks to funding by the U.S. Department of Education and administration by the National Association of the Deaf.

American Speech-Launguage Hearing Association - Feeding and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia) in Children - Description, Information, treatments

WGBH has been pioneering and delivering accessible media to disabled people for more than 30 years.

CAP works closely with service members across the nation to ensure they receive appropriate assistive technology for their needs, including vision or hearing loss, dexterity impairments,and cognitive difficulties. In August 2008 the Department of Defense Instruction, Assistive Technology (AT) for Wounded Service Members (DoDI 6025.22 (PDF)) was signed, establishing policy for AT programs in the Military Health System

Cincinnati Children's is conducting a research study to compare the language skills of children who have a cochlear implant and a developmental disability to children with the same developmental disability but no hearing loss

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - Definition of Childhood Apraxia of Speech - Causes - symptoms - Diagnosis - Treatments - Organizations

Developmental Apraxia of Speech - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - Developmental Apraxia of Speech - Just Another Motor Problem

BRAIN A Journal of Neurology Article - Encoding of human action in Broca's area

Nation Aphasia Association - The NAA's mission is to educate the public to know that the word aphasia describes an impairment of the ability to communicate, not an impairment of intellect. The NAA makes people with aphasia, their families, support systems, and health care professionals aware of resources to recover lost skills to the extent possible, to compensate for skills that will not be recovered and to minimize the psychosocial impact of the language impairment.

Discover accessibility settings that are already on your PC, and make your computer more comfortable, and easier to see, hear, and use.