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Provides information and referral to individuals, their families, health care professionals and others seeking research, treatments, and other support services for deafness and hearing loss.

Provides vocational assessments for Deaf, hard of hearing, or other functional disabilities. Call for further information.

Provides an early intervention program for children birth-2.ll years. Program is center and home based for children with confirmed or suspected hearing loss and their parents. Offers a fully accredited elementary program recognized by New York State for deaf students. Also offers full after-school extended program including sports and computers. Program includes a mainstream program and alternative multi-handicapped program.

Information and advocacy for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Provides professionally trained hearings dogs for people who are deaf/hard of hearing. Dogs are placed nationwide and in Canada and are free of charge.

Provides support, encouragement and information about deafness to families with deaf and hard of hearing children. Also provides referral services, resource lists and publication.

Provides education to students who are deaf and multiply handicapped deaf in a mainstream and individual class setting.

Assists U.S. residents who meet national poverty guidelines to qualify for hearing aids. Application available online or call HEAR NOW. Agency also accepts donations of used hearing aids which are sold for salvage to raise funds to support the hearing and assistance program.

Provides information and referrals to individuals seeking deaf or hearing impaired services. Also provides online resources, books and other publications on deafness/hearing loss and related issues, including information on various assistive equipment and technology.

Provides education for deaf and multiply disabled children who are deaf through age 14, and education of parents in American Sign Language. Evaluates students on request of school district and is a resource center on deafness.

Offers fully accredited high school program for Deaf adolescents a work/study experience program which is community based a mainstream program with neighboring public schools and an alternative high school program.

Offers many support and peer groups for individuals with disabilities including social and recreational gatherings. The groups are facilitated by individuals. Call for specific information. Groups are available for youth and adults.

Provides service dogs to be matched with adults, children ages 18+ or veterans with a disabilities other than blindness; and facility dogs for professional therapists/health care workers to use in animal-assisted therapy programs within hospitals, nursing homes, rehab centers or other such institutions.

Independent Living provides a bridge between the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing cultures in Orange, Ulster, Sullivan and Dutchess Counties, this program is actively engaged in community outreach and education, employment, advocacy, service coordination, counseling and technical support.

Offers a center based program for 2-5 year olds with delays in speech/language/cognitive learning areas with or without presence of hearing loss. One full day session is offered from 9:20am to 2:40pm. An integrated class comprised of both disabled and non-disabled students is also offered.

Provides vocational assessments for Deaf, hard of hearing, or other functional disabilities. Call for further information.

Offers information on available services, activities, support, and advocacy for those who are deaf, hard of hearing and their families. Also provides a quarterly newsletter, which aims towards the need of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, and their families. Anyone is welcome to send in articles or information for publication.

Assists U.S. residents who meet national poverty guidelines to qualify for hearing aids. Application available online or call HEAR NOW. Agency also accepts donations of used hearing aids which are sold for salvage to raise funds to support the hearing and assistance program.

Provides professionally trained hearings dogs for people who are deaf/hard of hearing. Dogs are placed nationwide and in Canada and are free of charge.

Promotes the use of spoken language by children and adults with hearing loss. Members include parents of children with hearing loss, adults who are deaf or hard of hearing, educators, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, physicians, and other professionals in fields related to hearing loss and deafness. Services include advocacy, information and referral, biennial convention, financial aid and scholarships, leadership programs for teens and college students, mentoring programs for adolescents, and publication of information on deafness and spoken language. Other programs include: Bell's Kids a mentoring program for children ages 8-12 and adults with hearing loss Educational Advocacy Initiative an initiative whose aim is to ensure that families have a choice when selecting an educational program for their child who is deaf or heard of hearing Online Chats which hosts online chats on a variety of issues pertaining to hearing loss Public School Caucus Assistance Project which assists school districts in establishing auditory/oral programs and/or strengthening existing auditory/oral programs Leadership Enrichment Adventure Program (LEAP) a preeminent program for college students with hearing loss Leadership Opportunities For Teens (LOFT) a preeminent program for high school students with hearing loss and Cyber Mentoring where members are invited to participate in this unique opportunity to directly enhance the training of teachers in the field of education for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Gathers funds for a variety of ministries with the Deaf throughout the United States and the world, including Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf and Mill Neck Services for Deaf Adults. For grant guidelines and applications, please call or visit the website.

Provides education for deaf and multiply disabled children who are deaf through age 14, and education of parents in American Sign Language. Evaluates students on request of school district and is a resource center on deafness.

Provides service dogs to be matched with adults, children ages 18+ or veterans with a disabilities other than blindness; and facility dogs for professional therapists/health care workers to use in animal-assisted therapy programs within hospitals, nursing homes, rehab centers or other such institutions.

Offers a quarterly newsletter, which aims towards the need of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, and their families. Anyone is welcome to send in articles or information for publication.

Provides audiological services to children birth to adults in communities across Long Island. Services are offered on a fee-for-service basis. Financial grants and sliding scale are available.