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Deaf
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| Did
You Know?.... In Texas, legislation requires all health services
professionals, including audiologists, to refer children under age
three to Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) within two working days
of identifying an infant or toddler with a developmental delay. To
make a referral, call the ECI Care Line at 1-800-250-2246. |
Links to Web Sites
-
 Advocacy, Inc. - To advocate
for, protect, and advance the legal, human, and service rights of people with
disabilities.- ARD
(IEP) Forms - from TEA (Texas Education Agency)
- Audex
- Audicles
- Austin
Association of the Deaf
- Available
Through the DHHS
- CART Providers in Texas
- Chapter 89
of the Texas Education Code: Adaptations for Special Populations
- CSD
of Texas - San Antonio (was the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Resource
Center)
- 5323 Blanco Road, San Antonio, TX 78216
V/TTY: 210-349-3332 FAX: 210-349-3272
- Cued Speech in San Antonio
- Dallas & Fort Worth Deaf Home Page
- Deaf Action Center
- Deaf
Awareness Week - Website for the San Antonio Chapter
- Deaf
Celebration
- Deaf
Events & News San Antonio
- Deaf Interpreter Services, Inc.
- Ear
Medical Group
- Early
Childhood Intervention (ECI)
- El Paso Center of the Deaf and Hard
of Hearing
- Grapevine
HLAA
- Handbook
of Texas Online: Texas Blind, Deaf, and Orphan School
- Hear In Dallas
- Hear Me Foundation
- Hearing
Systems Inc.
- Houston
HLAA
- Jean Massieu Academy
- A
charter school in Irving, TX that uses ASL as the instructional language.
- La
Vista Deaf Retirement Community Website
- Methodist Family and Rehabilitation
Services - For adults who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have other disabilities.
Their residential services include vocational training, job skills training, and life skills training.
- Miss Deaf Texas Pageant
- Otology
Group
- Pediatric Aural Habilitation Specialists Training Program
at the University of Texas at Dallas
- Procedural
Safeguards For Students With Disabilities - An explanation of
parental rights in special Education.
- Program for Amplification for Children of Texas (PACT)
- Relay Texas Center
- Relay Texas: Unofficial
Website
- San Antonio
College: Department of American Sign Language and Interpreter Training
- San
Antonio HLAA
- Senate
Bill 1
- Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf
- Special
Education Rules and Regulations
- Special
Olympics Texas
- Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf
Children
- Texas
AGBell - Texas Chapter of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
- Texas Assistive
Technology Partnership
- Texas Association of the Deaf
- Texas
Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Now called DARS)
- Texas Department
of Health: Audiology Services
- Texas Education Agency Division of Services for the Deaf
- Texas Flag Football for
the Deaf
- Texas Hearing and Service Dogs
- Texas
Insurance Code as it relates to Loss or Impairment of Speech or Hearing
- An issuer of a group health benefit plan shall offer and make
available under the plan coverage for the necessary care and treatment of
loss or impairment of speech or hearing. This offer of coverage is subject
to the right of the group health benefit plan holder to reject the coverage.
- Texas
Insurance Code as it relates to Coverage of Newborn Children -
prohibits excluding or limiting initial coverage of a newborn infant for a
period of time, or limitations or exclusions for congenital defects of a
newborn child.
- Texas
Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention
- Texas
Neurosciences Institute
- Texas
Rehabilitation Commission's Hearing Impaired Program
- Texas School for the Deaf
- Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf
(TSID)
- Texas
Special Education Monitoring - From TEA
- Texas
State Resources - From the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities.
- Texas
SHHH - Texas Chapter of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People.
- Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf
- Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association
(TSHA)
- The
Ear Foundation - Has a Texas affiliate office in San Antonio
- UTD/Callier
Center for Communication Disorders
- Vaughn
House
E-mail Discussion Groups
- Deafnewsbv
(bv = Brazos Valley)
- DHHC
- Houston
- TexasCuers
- Txagbell
- TX
Hearing Loss List - This list is primarily for
Texas residents with hearing loss who want to communicate with each other
about hearing loss issues and just have a little fun.
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