Resources
Hearing Loss and Communication Options
Learn about the different options your family has for your child with a hearing loss
Questions to Ask Your Doctors
Questions to ask various doctors about your child and their hearing loss
Local Resources
Education - Maryland
Maryland Infants & Toddlers Program
Open to Maryland residents, services provided by each county. Provides in-home and community-based support and services to families in the first four years of their child's life when that child has a hearing loss, developmental delays, or disabilities. To make a referral:
Phone: 1-800-535-0132
https://referral.mditp.org/
Family Support & Resource Center
Open to Maryland residents, located in Columbia & Frederick. A statewide support service for families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing. MSD houses this MSDE resource center to provide any Maryland family (including MSD families), professional, or service agency, support with raising a deaf or hard of hearing child. The center offers information resources, hosts monthly workshops and special events, and coordinates with service agencies statewide.
Phone: Voice/Text: 443-277-8899 Videophone: 410-696-7435
Email: cheri.dowling@msd.edu
Web: https://www.msd.edu/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=973035&type=d&pREC_ID=1293264
Parents' Place of Maryland
Open to Maryland residents. Serves ages birth to 26. We help families obtain education and health care services for their children with disabilities; work to improve education and health care for all children; train and inform parents and professionals on a variety of topics; and connect children with disabilities to community resources that address their needs. Provides one-on-one support, training, referrals, and information.
Phone: 1-800-394-5694 or 410-768-9100
Email: https://www.ppmd.org/contact/
Web: https://www.ppmd.org/services/
Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD)
Open to Maryland residents, located in Columbia & Frederick. The Family Education and Early Childhood Department at the Maryland School for the Deaf provides home visits, early childhood classes, and family workshops and events. All students in the Family Education and Early Childhood Department will have daily opportunities to acquire two languages through ASL and English in Reading and Writing; and enhance their auditory listening skills and spoken English.
Phone: Voice: 410-696-3042 Videophone: 410-696-7435 or 240-575-2924
Email: carrie.shortt@msd.edu or katelyn.jackson@msd.edu
Web: https://www.msd.edu/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1091444&type=d&pREC_ID=1292911
A Sound Beginning
Open to all, located in Ellicott City. Provides parent-child groups which meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month (February - May; Sept - December) with two Summer Adventures., in addition to parent education groups, and preschool- and school-age services. This program uses listening and Spoken Language.
Phone: 443-325-5542
Email: info@asoundbeginning.org
Web: http://www.asoundbeginning.org/
The Gateway School at HASA
Open to all, located in Baltimore City. A nonpublic, coeducational K-8 school for children with autism, development disabilities, and communication disorders (including hearing loss). Classroom staff include special educators, paraeducators, and speech language pathologists. This program uses listening and spoken language.
Phone: 410-318-6780
Email: hasa@hasa.org
Web: https://www.hasa.org/gateway-school/
Connections Beyond Sight & Sound
Supports Maryland and DC children and young adults with deafblindness in their homes, schools, and communities by providing consultation, training, special programs, resources, and technical assistance to children and their families and care providers.
Phone: 301-405-0482
Email: http://marylanddb.org/about-connections/contact/
Education - Washington, DC
Strong Start - D.C.’s Early Intervention Program
Open to residents of DC. Provides in-home support and services to families with children, from birth to age five, who have a hearing loss, developmental delays, or disabilities. To schedule an in-home visit, call or email the contact info below.
Phone: 202-727-3665
Email: osse.dceip@dc.gov
Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc.
Open to residents of DC. Serves ages birth to 26. Advocates for Justice and Education seeks to empower families, youth, and the community to be effective advocates to ensure that children and youth, particularly those who have special needs, receive access to appropriate education and health services. Provides a Parent-to-Parent support network, Comprehensive Resource Library, Community Education, Individual Advocacy, Legal Representation, and Transition Advocacy.
Phone: 202-678-8060
Email:
Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (KDES)
Open to all. The Kendall Parent-Infant Program provides a center-based play group that infants and toddlers (with their family members and other caregivers) attend two mornings a week. The program emphasizes the development and acquisition of American Sign Language (ASL) and provides opportunities for families to attend ASL classes and participate in the Shared Reading Project.
Phone: (202) 250-2761
Email: kdes.pip@gallaudet.edu
Web:
https://kdes.gallaudet.edu/academics/early-childhood-education-program/
The River School Parent-Infant Program
Open to all. Resource for families of children diagnosed with hearing loss, ages birth to three. Parents, along with their infants and toddlers, meet each week for an hour and a half. Parents learn about issues relating to hearing loss and share experiences with other families in similar situations, while the children engage in fun, language-stimulating activities.
Phone: (202) 337-3554
Email: parentinfant@riverschool.net
Web: http://riverschool.net/school-life/parent-infant-program/
Connections Beyond Sight & Sound
Supports Maryland and DC children and young adults with deafblindness in their homes, schools, and communities by providing consultation, training, special programs, resources, and technical assistance to children and their families and care providers.
Phone: 301-405-0482
Email: http://marylanddb.org/about-connections/contact/
Cultural & Social - Maryland & Washington, DC
Baltimore City Association of the Deaf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BCADeaf/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BmoreAssocDeaf
Bridging Hands Camp
Located in Nanjemoy, MD. Weeklong summer camp for ages 7-13.
DC Association of the Deaf
Web: https://dcadeaf.org/
Deaf Camps, Inc.
Located in Knoxville, MD. Weeklong summer camp for ages 7-19.
Web: https://deafcampsinc.org/
District of Columbia Area Black Deaf Advocates
Greater Washington Asian Deaf Association
Web: http://gwada-dc.org/
Howard County Association of the Deaf
Web: https://hcadeaf.org/
Latino Deaf and Hard of Hearing Association of the DC Metro
Maryland Association of the Deaf
Web: https://www.mdad.tv/
Maryland Deaf Cultural Digital Library
Web: https://www.marylanddcdl.org/
Metro South Asian Deaf Association
Prince George's County Association of the Deaf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PGCAD-101250298163005/
Washington Society of Jewish Deaf
Web: https://wsjdeaf.org/
Audiology - Maryland & Washington, DC
Children's National Hospital
Located in NorthWest Washington, DC with satellite locations in Friendship Heights, DC; Takoma Theater, DC; Rockville, MD; Lanham, MD; Fairfax, VA;
Hearing and Speech Center
Phone: 202-476-5600
Cochlear Implant Program
Phone: 202-476-3925
Web: https://childrensnational.org/departments/cochlear-implant-program
Potomac River Clinic
Potomac River Clinic serves a diverse population of children who have a diagnosed hearing loss and benefit from hearing aids or cochlear implants. Services also offer comprehensive pediatric hearing evaluations and more. Co-located with The River School.
4880 MacArthur Blvd NW
Washington, DC 20007
Phone: (202) 333-1403
Email: info@potomacriverclinic.org
Web: https://potomacriverclinic.org/
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
MedStar Georgetown provides comprehensive Audiology services, including newborn hearing screening, outpatient hearing screening, ABR in natural sleep and sedated, pediatric diagnostic hearing evaluations, hearing aid, bone conduction devices, and cochlear implants.
Best number for scheduling:
Phone: 202-944-5301
Email for cochlear implants: cochlearimplant@gunet.georgetown.edu
Websites:
https://www.medstarhealth.org/services/pediatric-audiology-and-hearing-research
https://www.medstarhealth.org/locations/audiology-wisconsin-ave
2115 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Suite 202
Washington, DC 20007
Gallaudet Speech and Hearing Center (GUHSC)
GUHSC’s mission is to provide comprehensive and innovative hearing, speech, language, and balance services to the Gallaudet University and the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. It is located on the university campus within the Sorenson Language and Communication Center building.
Phone: (202) 651-5328
Email: guhsc@gallaludet.edu
Website: https://hearingandspeech.gallaudet.edu/services/audiology/
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Located in Towson, MD.
Audiology
Phone: 443-849-2142
Web: https://www.gbmc.org/audiology
Cochlear Implant Center
Phone: 443-849-8400
Web: https://www.gbmc.org/cochlear
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Located in Baltimore, MD with satellite locations in Lutherville, MD; Bethesda, MD; NorthWest Washington, DC
Pediatric Audiology
Phone: 727-767-8989
Web: https://www.hopkinsallchildrens.org/Services/Rehabilitation/Audiology
The Listening Center (Cochlear Implants)
Email: cochlearimplant@jhmi.edu
Phone: 443-997-6467
Web: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/otolaryngology/specialty_areas/cochlear-implant-center/
University of Maryland Medical Center
Located in Baltimore, MD.
Audiology (including cochlear implants)
Phone: 410-328-5947
Web: https://www.umms.org/ummc/health-services/audiology
Medical - Maryland & Washington, DC
Deafness-Related Evaluations and More (DREAM) Clinic
Located in Baltimore, MD. Offers outpatient neuropsychological assessments for infants, children, and young adults who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing. We also work with children raised in bilingual environments, such as American Sign Language (ASL) and English, who need evaluations —typically, these are children of d/Deaf adults.
Phone: 888-554-2080 or 443-923-9400
Email: Previ@KennedyKrieger.org
Dr. Andrew Donald, DDS
Dental services in American Sign Language.
College Park, MD
Phone: 301-474-8277
Gaithersburg, MD
Phone: 301-987-5527
Web: https://www.drrattner.com/our-team/meet-our-team/
Dr. Bo Byun, DDS
Located in Marriottsville, MD. Dental services in American Sign Language.
Phone: (410) 696-4388
Email: doctorbyun@gmail.com
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Bo-A-Byun-DMD-LLC-Marriottsville-Dentist-274911749307846/
Unity Clinic
Located in Baltimore, MD. Serves children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing from infancy to age 18, and who may have experienced trauma. We also serve caregivers or any family members who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and whose child may have experienced trauma.
Phone: 443-923-5958
Other - Maryland & Washington, DC
Mayor's Office for Deaf, Deaf Blind and Hard of Hearing (MODDHH)
The mission of the MODDHH is to address the important concerns of Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing and Late Deafened residents of Washington DC. They can be reached by email at moddhh@dc.gov, or by phone: (202) 727-5969.
Maryland Governor's Office of the Deaf & Hard of Hearing (ODHH)
Web: https://odhh.maryland.gov/
Community Resources Directory: https://odhh.maryland.gov/directory/
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Learning About Hearing Loss and Communication OpPORTUNITIES
American Society for Deaf Children
Phone: (800) 942-2732
Web: http://deafchildren.org/knowledge-center/parents-and%20families/
AG Bell
Hearing First
Phone: (800) 522-4582
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Phone: (202) 651-5051
Email: clerc.center@gallaudet.edu