Learning About Hearing Loss

Finding Families Like Yours

Getting Services for Your Child

Helping to Pay for Services

Learning About Hearing Loss

Family-friendly websites where you can learn more about hearing loss:

Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center

  • (202) 651-5051
  • Email: clerc.center@gallaudet.edu

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders

  • (800) 241-1044
  • Email: nidcdinfo@nidcd.nih.gov

Finding Other Families Like Yours

Alaska Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Family Support

Stone Soup Group

  • (877) 786-7327 or (907) 561-3701 (Anchorage)
  • Email: ssg@stonesoupgroup.org

Family Voices Alaska

Stone Soup Group

  • (877) 786-7327 or (907) 561-3701 (Anchorage)
  • Email: ssg@stonesoupgroup.org

Parent Training and Information Center

Stone Soup Group

  • (877) 786-7327 or (907) 561-3701 (Anchorage)
  • Email: ssg@stonesoupgroup.org

Alaska Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Blind Council

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

  • (202) 337-5220
  • Email: info@agbell.org

American Society for Deaf Children

  • (800) 942-2732
  • Email: asdc@deafchildren.org

Hands & Voices

  • (866) 422-0422
  • Email: parentadvocate@handsandvoices.org

Getting Services for Your Child

Alaska Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program

  • (800) 799-7570 or (907) 269-3400 (Anchorage)

Alaska Early Intervention/Infant Learning Program (EI/ILP)

  • (877) 477-3659 or (907) 269-8442 (Anchorage)

Alaska School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

  • (907) 742-4236

Itinerant Hard of Hearing/Deaf Services for School-Age Children (Including Preschool)

  • Contact your School District’s Special Education Office

Let Them Hear Foundation Advocacy Program

Oral Deaf Education Programs

  • (877) 672-5332





Learning more about communication options:

  • ASL University:
  • John Tracy Clinic Correspondence Courses
    (213) 748-5481 or (800) 522-4582 
  • National Cued Speech Association
    (800) 459-3529 
    Email: info@cuedspeech.org

Helping to Pay for Services

Hearing Aid/FM Loaner Program

Alaska Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program

  • (800) 799-7500 or (907) 334-2273 (Anchorage)

Denali Kid Care

  • (888) 318-8890 or (907) 269-6529 (Anchorage)

Developmental Disability Mini Grants

Stone Soup Group

  • (877) 786-7327 or (907) 561-3701 (Anchorage)

Assistive Technology of Alaska

  • (800) 723-2852 or (907) 563-2599