Hereditary Hearing Loss Homepage This web site is a useful resource for keeping up to date on research in the genetics of hearing and deafness.

The Connexin-Deafness Homepage This web site is a useful resource for keeping up to date on the present research in the connexin 26 (GJB2) gene and its role in deafness.

Boys Town National Research Hospital This web site of the Boys Town National Research Hospital (Omaha, Nebraska) is an institution recognized for its research and treatment of children with deafness and communication disorders.

Gene Tests This web site is a useful resource for obtaining information and access to genetic testing. It offers a genetics laboratory directory, a genetics clinics directory, and introduction to genetics and genetic testing concepts, and news articles on the latest breakthroughs in the field of genetics.

Gene Clinics This web site is the clinical information resource relating genetic testing to the diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling of individuals and families with specific inherited disorders.

AG Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing This web site is maintained by Self Help for the Hard of Hearing (SHHH), a nonprofit educational organization committed to the well-being of the hard of hearing population. SHHH offers a number of well-updated informational resources that may be of use to the hard of hearing population.

Self Help for Hard of Hearing People This web site is maintained by Self Help for the Hard of Hearing (SHHH), a non-profit educational organization committed to the well-being of the hard of hearing population. SHHH offers a number fo well-updated informational resources that may be of use to the hard of hearing population.

Gallaudet University The world's only liberal arts university for deaf and hard of hearing students.

NIDCD The branch of the National Institutes of Health that supports research on deafness and communication disorders.

NIDCD Temporal Bone Registry This web site serves as a registry for individuals with ear disorders who wish to pledge their temporal bones at death to scientific research. The registry is based at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts) and the web site is maintained by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

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