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Resources:

• Dr. Mark Ross On Hearing Loss
• Hearing Assessment
• Ten Commandments of Communicating with People with Disabilities

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Penn State University Services:

• Affirmative Action Office/Diversity Support And Education Center
• Assistive Technology Resources at University Park Campus
• Counseling And Psychological Services
• Go 60 Program
• Information Technology Services
• Office Of Disabilities
• Office Of Judicial Affairs
• Student Affairs Career Services
• Telecommunications Devices For Individuals With Disabilities (Teletypewriter - TTY)
• Undergraduate Writing Center
• University Health Services
• University Libraries Services For Persons With Disabilities
• Video Conferencing at PSU

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State College Community Service

• CATABus
• Centre County Office Of Aging
• Centre Daily Times On-Line
• Sight Loss Support Group

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Pennsylvania State Services:

• AARP Of Pennsylvania
• DRM Regional Resources Directory-Pennsylvania
• Learning Disabilities Association Of Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania Academy of Audiology
• Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• Pennslyania's Initiative on Assistive Technology

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Government Resources:

• Access Board
• Americans with Disabilities Act Homepage
• Disability Info From US Government
• Office Of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR)
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Orgnizations and Foundations:

• Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• American Auditory Association
• American Academy of Audiology
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Association of Late Deafened Adults
• Center for Applied Special Technology
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Association
• The Ear Foundation
• Equal Access to Software and Information - EASI
• Hear It
• Hearing Aid Help
• Hearing Center Online
• Hearing Exchange
• Hearing Industries Association
• International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet - ICDRI
• National Institue on Deafness
• National Technical Institute for the Deaf
• Northeast Technical Assistance Program
• PA Chapter of Self Help for the Hard of Hearing
• Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology - PIAT
• PIAT Lending Library
• Rehabilitation Engineering and Assisitve Technology Society of North America - RESNA
• Self Help for the Hard of Hearing
• Technical Assistance Program at Gallaudet University

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Publications:

• American Annuals of the Deaf
• Closing the Gap
• Deaf Life - for heard of hearing and deaf
• Ear and Hearing
• Hearing Health
• Hearing Loss Magazine by SHHH
• Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
• Sign Language Studies
• Volta Review
• Volta Voices

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Captioning:

• C-Print
• Captioned Media Program
• Closed Captioning Web
• National Captioning Institute

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Web Accessibility:

• Access to All - Session 1
• Access to All - Session 2
• Access to All - Session 3
• Accessible Web Author's Toolkit
• Bobby
• Designing Web Pages for the Visually Impaired
• IBM Accessibility
• LIFT
• Microsoft Accessibility
• National Access Board's Web Design Guidelines
• Portal on Accessible Web Design
• Usability Guidelines from the National Cancer Institute
• World Wide Web Consortium - Web Accessibility Initiative

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Assistive Technology:

• AbleData
• AbleData - Assistive Technology Database
• Alliance for Technology Access
• AssitiveTech.net
• Closing the Gap - Assistive Software
• Demystifying ALDs
• Enable Mart
• Equal Access to Software and Information - EASI
• Hearing Aids 101
• IBM Accessibility Center
• Infinite
• Microsoft Accessibility Center
• PIAT - Introduction to Assistive Technology
• Trace Research and Development Center

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Miscellaneous Information:

• Blindness-Related Resources On The Web And Beyond
• Deaf Resource Library
• National Library Service For The Blind And Physically Handicapped (NLS): A Service Of The Library Of Congress
• Recording For The Blind And The Dyslexic

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Other Local Resources

Centre County Library Audiovisual Service
203 North Allegheny
Bellefonte, PA 16823
814 355-1516

Developmental Disabilities Advocacy Network,
National Federation Of The Blind-Local Chapter
Contact: Cary Supalo, Chapter President, cas380@psu.edu

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