Patient Education Information

Deaf or Hard-Of-Hearing: Working With Your Doctor - This fact sheet offers great advice on how to talk to your doctor.

Straight Talk From the FDA On Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids - Check out this site for great information.

Hearing: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss - This handout, prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians, provides general overview on noise-induced hearing loss.

Hearing Loss - NIH Senior Health has prepared this information.

Hearing Problems in Young Children - This page, also prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians, contains a questionnaire used to identify signs of hearing problems in young children.

How Deaf People Communicate - See the various ways, from Gallaudet University.

Ten Ways To Recognize Hearing Loss - The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders has created this little quiz.

Deafness and Hearing Loss Fact Sheets - This is a publication of the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.

Hearing Aids - The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders provides this information on several types of hearing aids and how they work.

Hearing, Ear Infections and Deafness - The National Institute on Deafness and other Communications Disorders has created this site.

Hearing Loss - The Cleveland Clinic provides this information.

Hearing Loss Web - Hearing Loss Web is dedicated to people who have hearing loss, but are not members of the traditional Deaf community. This includes people who consider themselves to be hearing impaired, hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral deaf.

MEDLINEPlus Medical Encyclopedia - The Health Illustrated Encyclopedia from MedlinePlus includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Please check the alphabetic listing for the topic you want.

Dial 711 For Communication Services or
Speech-To-Speech Relay Service or Telecommunications Relay Service or
Video Relay Services - The Federal Communications Commission offers this information.

10 Ways to Recognize Hearing Loss - These questions, provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, will help you determine if you need to have your hearing evaluated by a medical professional.

What's Hearing Loss? - This information, from KidsHealth, is designed for kids, but you adults can read it too.