RESOURCES

Welcome Vets! Here are some articles that you may find helpful. More resources will be posted as they become available.

1. Tinnitus: Ringing in the Ear
2. That Buzzing Sound: The mystery of tinnitus
3. An Overview of Hearing Loss – Its Signs, Causes, Implications and Solutions
4. A Marine Searches for Hearing Protection
5. Hearing Loss: Personal and Social Considerations -- Communication Tips
6. Beyond the Hearing Aid with Assistive Devices
7. Intimacy and Hearing Loss
8. Meet Washington Redskins Reed Doughty: He Talks About Pro Football and His Hearing Loss
9. The Road to Acceptance: A college student talks candidly about his hearing loss
10. A Letter to Returning Vets with Hearing Loss
11. Federal Veteran Resources Guide
12. Learn about the Veterans with Hearing Loss Project at RIT/NTID
13. ADA: Know Your Rights -- Returning Service Members with Disabilities   [HTML version]   [PDF version]
14. Job Opportunities for Disabled American Veterans

• US Department of Labor re-launches National Resource Directory for wounded warriors with US Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs

• Audiology and Hearing Aid Benefit for Veterans Webinar
  Dr. Bratt is the chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Tennessee Valley Healthcare System in Nashville. Dr. Bratt’s presentation, Audiology and Hearing Aid Benefit for Veterans, was very informative and is available for download (see the File Share box in the lower left-hand corner on the recorded presentation). For information about the next Webinar, please check the HLAA homepage.

Reduced cost assistive listening systems for retired and active-duty military service members and their families
In an effort to improve the quality of life for those who serve our country, Williams Sound has proudly teamed with the Military Audiology Association to offer the RALD program to both retired and active-duty military service members and their families. The RALD program was created to provide these individuals access to assistive listening devices (ALDs) at a reduced cost, along with free personalized telephone support. For more information on RALD, please visit www.williamssound.com/RALD or www.militaryaudiology.org.

Phones
Depending on which state you live in you may be eligible for free or reduced-cost telecommunications equipment such as phones with volume control and phones to use with captioned telephone service. To find out if your state has an Equipment Distribution Program go to: http://www.tedpa.org/interiorPage.php?pageID=111&viewType=sm

Did you know there is a captioned telephone, just like captioned TV, so you can read along as you listen to the other party on the phone? Check out to see if there is this service in your state.
http://www.captionedtelephone.com/availability.phtml

Would you prefer to use captioned telephone on your computer and with the phones you already have at home? Then go to the following websites and follow the easy directions.
http://www.hamiltoncaptel.com
http://www.sprintcaptel.com

Movies
If you are having trouble hearing in the movie theater you might want to try out captioned movies. To see where they are playing go to: http://www.fomdi.com/

Support in HLAA Chapters
If you want to meet other people with hearing loss and find out how they cope with their hearing aids and cochlear implants, there may be an HLAA Chapter near you. HLAA Chapters meet monthly with speakers on all kinds of topics such as hearing aids, assistive listening devices, TV captioning, how to communicate with your spouse and family members, hearing in public places and meetings, coping at work and much more. Visit our Chapters page to find a chapter near you.