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Research: Disability Specific Resources: Hearing Impairment and Deafness


Includes Hearing Impairment, Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Hearing Loss.
Click on this link for Vestibular Disorders, Inner Ear Disorders, Meniere's Syndrome, or Dizziness.
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New Sign Deafness Research Foundation, a leading source of private funding for basic and clinical research in hearing science, offers information on various issues relating to deafness. More specifically, their website features information on cochlear implants, hearing aids, various ear conditions, and much more.

New Sign Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is a research facility that studies the physiology and function of the ear. For more information, contact the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, 6th floor Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, 601 N Caroline St., Baltimore, MD 21287, Phone:410-955-1080, or Fax: 410-955-6526. The Center includes researchers, teachers, clinicians, and others in the Hopkins medical community. The goal of the Center is to perform basic and clinical research, train basic and clinical investigators, and disseminate research results and relevant information to the medical community and the general public. Research is centered on auditory (hearing) and vestibular (balance) function in normal subjects and in patients with hearing and balance disorders, and on rehabilitation that includes researchers, teachers, clinicians, and others in the Hopkins medical community. The goal of the Center is to perform basic and clinical research, train basic and clinical investigators, and disseminate research results and relevant information to the medical community and the general public. Research is centered on auditory (hearing) and vestibular (balance) function in normal subjects and in patients with hearing and balance disorders, and on rehabilitation. Research articles by members of the lab faculty are included on this site under "Recent Findings."

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