Our Mission: Historically, due to lack of available appropriate training, First Responders have encountered difficulties providing services to Deaf members of the community. NFRDCT partners with First Responders, providing high-quality cultural and language training to enable more successful interactions with Deaf consumers. Our Vision: Via

Fascinating Facts About Ears and Hearing---PARROTS?! Crazy.

Degrees of hearing lossHow severe is your hearing loss? That depends on which levels of sound you can hear. Your hearing professional will chart these levels on an audiogram in order to determine your degree of hearing loss. Hearing loss is generally classified in seven degrees: normal, slight, mild, moderate, moderately severe, severe, and profound. Shapes of hearing lossYour hearing may be limited to one ear or affect both. There are four configurations of hearing loss that you could be experi

Deaf awareness

Examples of great posters to raise awareness about sensory loss, developmental disabilities and the autistic spectrum – the Deaf, blindness, tinnitus, hearing loss, vision loss, autism and Asperger’s Syndrome