Organizations Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf- is a nonprofit membership organization that was established in 1890 to empower persons who are hearing impaired to function independently by promoting universal rights and optimal opportunities to learn to use, maintain, and improve all aspects of their verbal communications, including their abilities to speak, speechread, use residual hearing, and process both spoken and written languages. Children of Deaf Adults - CODA is an organization that focuses on hearing children of deaf adults. Membership is primarily, but not exclusively, composed of hearing children of deaf parents.
CODA addresses bicultural experiences through conferences, support groups and resource development.
The primary goal of this site is to reduce the interpersonal and informational isolation that is so common in the field of Deaf Education. Founded in 1982, its mission is to bring the performing and fine arts to deaf adults and children and cultivate them as patrons of the arts. NTID is the world's first and largest technological college for deaf students. It represents the first concerted effort to educate large numbers of deaf students within a college campus planned primarily for hearing students. As a federal government's focal point for biomedical and behavioral research in human communication, the Institute supports and conducts research on the normal and disordered process of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language.