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Deaf
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Contacts National & International: Special Category Consumer Membership Alexander Graham Bell
Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AGBELL) 1890 / Deaf
and Hard of Hearing Section (DHHS) 1964
DC 20007 Web Site: www.agbell.org click on “deaf and hard of hearing” at the top Contact: Christine Anthony, chair / E-mail: dhhsmal@agbell.org American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB) 1937 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Web Site: www.aadb.org Contact:: Elizabeth T. Spiers, Director of Information Services / E-mail: espiers@aadb.org Arthur Roehrig, is the president. American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (ADARA) May 25, 1966 Myersville, MD 21773 Web Site: www.adara.org Contact: Steve Hamerdinger, President / E-mail: adaraorgn@aol.com American Library Association (ALA) 1876 Chicago, IL 60611 Web Site: www.ala.org Contact: Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) / E-mail: ASCLA@ala.org ASCLA, one of 11 ALA divisions, is home to Libraries Serving Special Populations Section (LSSPS) in which one of its forums is Library Services to People Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (LSPDHH) 1979 Kathleen Hegarty is the 2007/2008 chair of LSPDHH. E-mail: kbhegarty@hotmail.com ALA Office of Outreach Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS) Contact: Satia Marshall Orange, Director / E-mail: olos@ala.org American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA) 1975 Rochester, NY 14692 Web Site: www.aslta.org Contact: Glenna Ashton, President / E-mail: president@aslta.org American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC) 1967 Camp Hill, PA 17011 Web Site: www.deafchildren.org Contact: Beth S. Benedict, President / E-mail: asdc@deafchildren.org American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 1925 Rockville, MD 20852 Web Site: www.asha.org Contact: Arlene A Pietranton, Executive Director / E-mail: actioncenter@asha.org Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss (AAMHL) 2001 Rockville, MD 20848 Web Site: www.aamhl.org Contact: Wendy Cheng, President / E-mail: info@aamhl.org Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA) 1987 Rockford, IL 61107 Web Site: www.alda.org Contact: Bonnie Palmer / E-mail: info@alda.org Children of Deaf Adults International, Inc. (CODA) 1983 Santa Barbara, CA 93130 Web Site: www.coda-international.org Contact: Thomas Bull, Outreach Officer / E-mail: mrcoda@msn.com Carmel Batson is the president Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf (CEASD) 1868 Frederick, MD 21701 Web Site: www.ceasd.org/ Contact: James E. Tucker, President / E-mail: NationalOffice@ceasd.org President’s email address: tuckerja@msd.edu Council of American Instructors of the Deaf (CAID) 1847, 1850 Inc Bedford, TX 76095 Web Site: www.caidconference.org Contact: Helen Lovato, Office Manager / E-mail: caid@swbell.net Kathy Obenhaus is the president. Deaf Bilingual Coalition (DBC) 2007 Ham Lake, MN 55304 Web Site: www.deafbilingualcoalition.com Contact: John Egbert, CEO / Email: deafbilingual@gmail.com The Deaf Ethiopian American Association (DEAA) 2000 DC 20013 Web Site: pending Contact: Kidane Habte, President / E-mail: habtek2@yahoo.com Deaf History International, Inc (DHI) 1991 DC 20002 Web Site: http://dhi.gallaudet.edu/ Contact: Edna Sayers, Secretary / E-mail: edna.sayers@gallaudet.edu Douglas Bahl is the president. Deaf Pilots Association (DPA) 1994 Inc.2001 Jeffersonville, IN 47131 Web Site: www.deafpilots.org Contact: Leslie Stayer, President / E-mail: check online Deaf Queer Resource Center (DQRC) 1995 San Francisco, CA 94114 Web Site: www.deafqueer.org Contact: Dragonsani Renteria, President/ Director / E-mail: dqrc@deafqueer.org Deaf Seniors of America, Inc. (DSA) 1992 Surprise, AZ 85388 Web Site: www.deafseniorsofamerica.org Contact: Robert D. Cook, President / E-mail: cooook@aol.com Finland - see World Federation of the Deaf Hearing Loss Association of America (HLA) 1979 Bethesda, MD 20814 Web Site: www.hearingloss.org Contact: Brenda Battat, Executive Director / Email: http://www.hearingloss.org / E-mail: info@hearingloss.org Anne Pope is the president International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (Deaflympics) August 10, 1924 Frederick, MD 21701 Web Site: www.deaflympics.com Contact: Donalda Ammons, President / E-mail: info@deaflympics.com International Lutheran Deaf Association (ILDA) 1971 The Deaf Lutheran Parma, OH 44134 Web Site: www.LCMdeaf.org/ilda Contact: David G. Brown, Editor / E-mail: TheDeafLutheran@yahoo.com Greg Desrosiers is the president / E-mail: gdesrosiers1@shaw.ca Intertribal Deaf Council (IDC) 1994 Clayton, DE 19938 Web Site: www.deafnative.com Contact: Mark Azure, Executive Director / Email: idc@deafnative.com National Asian Deaf Congress (NADC) 1997 San Diego, CA 92177 Web Site: www.nadc-usa.org Contact: Karen Tong-Bregman, President / E-mail: ktb_nadc@yahoo.com NADC has 7 chapters. National Association of the Deaf (NAD) August 25, 1880 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Web Site: www.nad.org Contact: Nancy J. Bloch, CEO: E-mail: on line www.nad.org/contactus Bobbie Beth Scoggins is the president. Library Friends Section (LFS) July 4, 1994 Contact: Amy Bopp, Chair / E-mail: boppfamily@aol.com Senior Citizens Section (SCS) June 1980 Contact: Agnes D. Sutcliffe, Chair / E-mail: ADSutcliffe@verizon.net Described and Captioned Media Program see Special -- Media NAD is an organizational member of the World Federation of the Deaf. National Black Deaf Advocates (NBDA) 1982 Asheville, NC 28802 Web Site: www.nbda.org Contact: Cory L. Parker, Secretary / E-mail: secretary@nbda.org Thomas Samuels is the president. National Catholic Office for the Deaf (NCOD) 1971 Landover Hills, MD 20784 Web Site: www.ncod.org Contact: Consuelo Martinez Wild, Executive Director / E-mail: cwild@ncod.org National Cued Speech Association (NCSA) 1982 Bethesda, MD 20814 Web Site: www.cuedspeech.org Contact: Amy Ruberl, Executive Directory / E-mail: info@cuedspeech.org National Family Association for Deaf-Blind (NFADB) Sands Point, NY 11050 Web Site: www.nfadb.org Contact: Linda Syler, President / E-mail: nfadb@aol.com Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf (RAD) 1977 Montgomery Village, MD 20886 Web Site: www.RAD.org Contact: Steven Schumacher, Secretary / E-mail: Secretary@rad.org Larry Pike is the president. Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. (RID) 1972 Alexandria, VA 22314 Web Site: www.rid.org Contact: Cheryl Moose, President / E-mail: publications@rid.org Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI) 1968 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Web Site: www.tdi-online.org Contact: Claude Stout, Executive Director / E-mail: info@tdi-online.org Dr. Roy Miller is the president. World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) 1951 Helsinki, Finland. FIN-00401 Web site: www.wfdeaf.org Contact: Phillipa Sandholm, Adm Secretary / Email: info@wfdeaf.org Markku Jokinen is the president / Email: wfd@kl-deaf.fi The National Association of the Deaf (US) is an organizational member. |