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Agency for Hearing
1800 28th Street
Sacramento, CA 95816
916/732-9040 (voice)
888/725-8372 (toll-free)
916/732-9040 (TTY)
916/454-4559 (fax)
afh@agencyforhearing.org
http://www.agencyforhearing.org
The Agency for Hearing serves Sacramento County and surrounding areas. The hearing clinic is staffed by a dispensing audiologist and services are offered on a sliding scale. For a nominal fee, participants receive full services including: diagnostic testing, ear molds, hearing aids and assistive listening devices. The Hearing aid Loan Program loans out hundreds of hearing aids per year to individuals who cannot afford them. The Agency for Hearing accepts Medi-Cal and Healthy Families participants, as well as those who are above the income limits for those programs. The Agency for Hearing provides hearing services to meet the needs of low-income individuals, school children, and industrial workers. The agency provides a mobile testing unit available to all Northern California schools and senior centers.
Assistive Technology Loan Fund Authority
1602 Rolling Hills Drive, Suite 107
Richmond, Virginia 23229
804/662-9000 (Voice)
886/835-5976 (Toll-Free)
804/662-9533 (Fax)
atlfa@atlfa.org
The Consumer Service Fund (CSF) is “fund of last resort” which enables individuals with a physical or sensory disability to access a service or device that cannot be funded through existing programs. Items or services requested must be directly related to removing or reducing barriers created by the individual’s disability.
AUDIENT Program
221 Yale Ave N, Suite 450
Seattle, WA 98109
206/838-7194 (Voice)
206/838-7195 (Fax)
1-877-AUDIENT (1-877-283-4368)
info@audientalliance.org
The AUDIENT program was established as a hearing care alliance bringing together suppliers, hearing health care professionals, and related groups to provide access to quality hearing health care for persons who lack resources. AUDIENT's hearing care program and hearing aid eligibility are linked to the federal government’s poverty guidelines; income qualification will be tied to 250% of the federal poverty guideline. At a national poverty level of $10,400, an annual income of $26,000 or less qualifies applicants. Applicants will be interviewed by the AUDIENT Program to determine income qualification. Hearing aids available from the provider via the AUDIENT program for qualified individuals are fully digital BTE hearing aid with volume control, with upgraded models that include either directional microphones, or higher gain and output for more severe hearing losses. The fees for fitting patients, part of the cost for the AUDIENT program approved candidate, will be the same for all providers whose services will include: hearing aid fitting, dispensing and orientation; preparation and ordering ear molds; a minimum of two aural rehabilitation follow ups during the one year warranty period, and administration of an outcome measure questionnaire, from which the AUDIENT program will collect outcomes data.Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing Center
602 South King Street Ste. 102
Leesburg, VA 20175
703/777-5050 (voice/TTY)
703/777-4123 (fax)
A not-for-profit community resource offering speech, language, and hearing professional services at a very reasonable cost. A sliding scale of fees is available. Financial Assistance for hearing aids or speech-language therapy. The center serves people in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas.Carolina Children’s Communication Disorders Program
5501 Fortunes Ridge Drive, Suite R
Durham, NC 27113
919/419-1449 (Voice)
Funding for hearing aids, assisted listening devices and cochlear implants for children in North Carolina. Application required income and need based, ages from third to twenty-first birthdays.
Chicago Hearing Society
2001 North Clybourn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
773/248-9121 (voice)
773/248-9174 (TTY)
773/248-9176 (Interpreter Services)
AskCHS@anixter.org
Offers hearing evaluation, donations of new and used hearing aids, which are issued to qualified people who cannot afford to purchase a new ones. Accepts public aid with a sliding fee scale.
Cochlear Implant Awareness Foundation
Attn: Family Assistance Program
3109 Beaver Creek Lane
Springfield, Illinois 627121
800/795-0824 (voice)
info@ciafonline.org
www.ciafonline.org
The Cochlear Implant Awareness Foundation provides information, resources, support, and financial assistance to persons who may be eligible for this life-changing technology.
Colorado Center for Hearing, Speech, and Language
4280 Hale Parkway
Denver, CO 80220
303/322-1871 (TTY/TDD)
303/399-3411 (fax)
info@chsl.orgwww.chsl.org
Provides quality hearing and speech services for ages, including those who are unable to pay. The centers offer a hearing conservation program for businesses and free telephone consultations with therapists to help decide chidren's needs. The Center encourages this program for families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing. For more information please contact the audiology department or the Parent-Infant program (206/323.5770 V/TTY email: audiology@hsdc.org). The Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center provides extended payment plans for families enrolled. If the family cannot afford hearing aids, every effort is made to locate alternative funding sources. The center provides extended payment plans.
Colorado Neurological Institute
701 East Hampden Ave. Suite 330
Englewood, CO 80113
303/788-4010
Npyle@TheCNI.org
www.thecni.org
Cochlear Implant Assistance Program:
The Cochlear Implant Assistance Program (CIAP) assists qualified candidates. While CIAP receives and awards no-charge implants, patients are still responsible for other costs such as physician, hospital, surgical and audiological fees.
BAHA Assistance:
The center may be able to assist qualified candidates needing the BAHA device. The BAHA Assistance Program awards only the actual system itself (the internal and external components) - patients are still responsible for other costs associated such as the physician, hospital, surgical, and audiological fees. Limited supplies.
Angel Network for CNI Rehabilitation:
The mission of the Angel Network is to locate donors willing to assist with the financial needs of cochlear implant recipients in need of rehabilitation. Only Colorado and Wyoming residents are eligible. Deaf Friends International
PO Box 13192
Hamilton, OH
45013dfi@workersforjesus.com
www.workersforjesus.com
Deaf Friends International provides financial help to deaf children and adults around the world for scholarships, hearing aids, disaster relief, TTY’s and other special equipment, school supplies, other worthwhile initiatives, and medical needs. Grants are for individuals and groups, but all requests must come from teachers, school officials, doctors, social agency personnel, missionaries, or church leaders. Requests must be sent on official stationery.
Denver Ear Institute/LISTEN Foundation
799 East Hampden Avenue, #520
Englewood, Colorado 80110
303/788-7766 [Voice / TTY]
Where children learn to listen, talk, and communicate through parent education/support, individual therapy, audiological management, and cochlear implants. Birth – Teens.
Disabled Children’s Relief Fund (DCRF)
P.O. box 89Freeport, New York 11520
www.dcrf.org
Disabled Children's Relief Fund (DCRF), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, provides disabled children with assistance to obtain wheelchairs, orthopedic braces, walkers, lifts, hearing aids, eyeglasses, medical equipment, physical therapy, and surgery. Recipients are children who are blind, deaf, amputees, and who are diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Spastic Quadriplegia, Encephalitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Spina Bifida, Down's Syndrome, and other disabilities. DCRF focuses special attention on helping children throughout the U.S. that do not have adequate health insurance, especially the physically challenged. In some cases, DCRF may be the last resort.
Dorothy Ames Trust FundKey Trust Company of Maine
P.O. Box 1054
Augusta, ME 04332-1054
Attn: Christina Cook
Provides help for kids who need hearing aids, FM systems, etc. Open only to New England residents.The Geoffrey Foundation
P.O. Box 1112
Kennebunkport, ME 04046
Assists in eliminating costs as a barrier for families who choose the Auditory-Verbal approach for children with hearing impairment.
Hear Now Program/Starkey Hearing Foundation
6700 Washington Avenue
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
800/648-4377
952/947-4997
nonprofit@starkey.com
www.sotheworldymayhear.org
The Starkey Foundation supports the HEAR NOW program which provides hearing aid assistance to approved permanent US residents. The program is designed to assist those who have no other resources.
Hearing, Speech and Deafness Center
1620 Eighteenth Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
206/722-5824 (Voice)
The center's Trial Hearing Aid Program is available to children and families enrolled in the parent-infant program and provides the best possible amplification system (e.g. hearing aids and special listening devices) for deaf and hard of hearing children ages birth to three years. Financial burdens are minimized and children's benefit is maximized.
The HIKE Fund, Inc. (Hearing Impaired Kids Endowment Fund)
c/o: H.I.K.E. Board Secretary
10115 Cherry Hill Place Spring Hill, FL 34608-7116
352/688-2579 (Phone and fax)
ceterrill1@aol.com
http://www.thehikefund.org/
The HIKE fund provides hearing devices for children with hearing impairments whose parents are unable to meet this special need financially. One hundred children (newborn to 20-years-old) are provided with hearing devices each year. Children are eligible to receive a grant -- provided the need is verified by a prescription from an audiologist or physician. The fund has awarded many types of devices to aid hearing impaired children including, but not limited to: hearing aids, FM systems, closed caption converters, tactile units, alerting systems, and specialized sports equipment.
Hope for Hearing Foundation
5855 Green Valley Circle, Suite 305
Culver City, CA 90230 310/410-0900 (voice)
310/410-0080 (fax)
director@hope4hearing.org
www.hope4hearing.org
Hope for Hearing collects used hearing aids of all kinds: behind-the-ear (BTE), in-the-ear (ITE), in the canal (ITC) and completely-in-the-canal (CIC). They are inspected and if still viable put into working order and given away. The hearing aids are then made available to individuals in Southern California who have no other resources to obtain them. Hope for Hearing accepts a donation of $50 per year to cover the cost of a custom ear mold and dispenser consultation. Fee adjustments are available. A brief financial screening is made to assure Hope for Hearing is serving those who are truly in need. The hearing aid committee reviews the information.
John Tracy Clinic
806 West Adams Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90007
213/749-1651 213/ (fax)
213/748-5481 (voice)
800/522-4582 (voice)
213/747-2924 TTD
www.johntracyclinic.org
They John Tracy Clinic provides, worldwide and without charge, parent-centered services to young children with a hearing loss offering families hope, guidance and encouragement.
Lions Club International
300 W. 2nd St. Oak Brook, IL
www.lionsclubs.org
Lions are involved in a variety of other activities to improve their communities and help people undertake environmental projects and youth development programs.
Louis Tumarkin Zazove Foundation
www.ltzfoundation.org
The Foundation provides scholarships and related assistance to people with hearing loss so they can compete successfully in our hearing society.
Miracle-Ear Children’s Foundation
P.O. Box 59261
Minneapolis, MN 55459-0261
800/234-5422
www.miracle-ear.com
This program provides new or reconditioned “Miracle-Ear” hearing aids and service free of charge to families ineligible to receive public support with hearing impaired children ages sixteen years or younger. Dahlberg, Inc. is a corporate sponsor which donates hearing aids for needy children and underwrites the foundation’s administrative costs. Eligibility for hearing aids and other services requires disclosure of complete financial information for individuals residing in the same household.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowshipswww.nsf.gov/grfpNorth Carolina Assistive Technology Program
919/850-2787 Annette Lauber, Funding Specialist or Carol Williams, Consumer Resource Specialist or contact through CARELINE: 800/662-7030 for assistance in identifying funding resources or strategies. NCATP provides information on potential assistive technology funding resources for individuals to pursue.Prince William Speech and Hearing Center
4317 Ridgewood Center Drive
Woodbridge, VA 22192
703/670-8126 (voice)
703/670-0035 (fax)
703/670-8126 (TTY)
Speech Language Services / Hearing & Repairs/Warranties. Fees based on family size and income; fee adjustments are not available but clients may be advised of possible resources. Services by licensed certified professionals to children and adults.
Tourism Cares
Yellow Ribbon Scholarship
585 Washington Street
Canton, MA 02021
781/821-5990 (voice)
carolynv@tourismcares.org
http://www.tourismcares.org
Scholarship available to a student with a physical or sensory disability who is enrolled in an accredited two-or four-year university in the United States or Canada with a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or better, pursuing a degree in a travel and tourism-related field.
Travelers Protective Association Scholars H/Mp Trust for the Deaf and Near-Deaf
3755 Lindell Bouvelard
St. Louis, MO 63108
314/371-0533 (voice)
www.travelersprotectiveasn.com
The Travelers Protective Association of America established the TPA scholarship Trust for the Deaf and Near Deaf in 1975 to provide financial aid to deaf and hearing impaired children and adults in obtaining mechanical devices, medical or specialized treatment or specialized education as well as speech classes, note takers, interpreters, etc. and in other areas of need that are directly related to hearing impairment. Candidates must demonstrate financial need.Variety Club1520 Locust St. 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19102-4496
1-800-553-7806 (Voice)
215/735-2450 (Office fax number)
www.varietyphila.org
Depending on financial need, the Variety Club provides funding to eligible children whose families cannot afford to purchase assistive technology. Call to request funding.
The Warren Center for Communication & Learning
175 Union Street
Bangor ME 04401-6100
941-2850 (V)
1-877-542-9000 (Toll Free V)
207/941-4932 (TTY)
207/941-2852 (FAX)
E-mail: info@warrencenter.org
Web site: www.warrencenter.org
The Regional Hearing Aid Bank, ReHAB, is designed to provide hearing aids to children and adults of Eastern and Central Maine who cannot afford them and are not servied through the Veteran’s Adminstration, Vocational Rehabilitation program, insurances, or other third party providers and whose annual income is less than 200% of the federal poverty level. It utilizes donated behind-the-ear hearing aids that can be refurbished and reprogrammed. There is an application process and a waiting list. Call the Warren Center at 207/941-2850 for applications. For additional information, contact Sally at smcnamee@warrencenter.org |