Client Based Advocacy

CSDHH advocates issues on individual and organizational levels. Examples of past advocacy projects are: Helping professionals establish policies for hiring interpreters and finding assistive listening devices (ALDs) for public places.  CSDHH offers individualized client services to bridge this barrier and assist in handling various everyday situations.

ADVOCACY RESOURCES
Disability Rights NC
NC Council for D/HH
Pepnet
FCC/Relay
FCC/Captioning
Relay NC
NIDCD.NIH.gov
Beginnings College and Career Advice

DEAFNESS
National Association of the Deaf (www.nad.org)

HEARING LOSS
Hearing Loss Association of America
Association of Late-Deafened Adults, Inc.

DEAF BLIND
North Carolina Deaf Blind Associates
American Association of the Deaf Blind
Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
NC Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
NC Interpreter and Transliterator Licensure Law

CART and CAPTIONING
National Court Reporters Association

ADVOCACY
Americans with Disabilities Act
Disability Rights North Carolina Heard Greensboro Legal Aid

LOCAL NC RESOURCES
RHA Behavioral Health-Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program RHA Brochure