Alaska State School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
DHH Community Resources
Resources
There are a variety of local community, state and national resources available for cultural enrichment. Below is a list of the resources locally and nationally for students, families, community members, and educators.
Assistive Technology
Academic Resources
- Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Anchorage School District Listening and Spoken Language Program
- Anchorage School District STEP Center
- Alaska Advisory Board for the Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DEB)
- Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
- Juneau School District
- Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
- Mat-Su Borough School District
- University of Alaska Anchorage Disability Support Services
- Special Education Service Agency (SESA)
- Programs for Infants & Children, Inc. (PIC)
American Sign Language Classes
- Family Sign Language Classes – AKSDHH
- University of Alaska Anchorage – Language Department
- University of Alaska Fairbanks – Community Technical College
Deaf Blind Services
- Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults
- Special Education Service Agency (SESA)
Disability Resources
- ACCESS Alaska
- Hope Community Resources
- Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education
- Social Security Alaska
- State of Alaska – Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR)
- Ketchikan Job Center
- Kodiak Job Center DVR Office
- Stone Soup Group
- University of Alaska Anchorage Disability Support Services
- Juneau Southeast Alaska Independent Living (SAIL)
- Programs for Infants & Children, Inc. (PIC)
Employment Services
- Alaska Job Center Network (multiple locations)
Interpreter and Captioning Services
- Sorenson VRS
- Purple VRS
- JD Interpreting
- Alaska Registry Interpreter for the Deaf
- Language Interpreter Center – Alaska Immigration Justice Project
- Network Interpreting Service
- Alaska Court System
- Peninsula Reporting (CART services)
- Northern Lights Realtime and Reporting (CART services)
- RNR Interpreting LLC – contact via phone (907) 317 – 2235
- Pro Bono Interpreting Services (ran by Alaska Deaf Council)
Legal Support
- Disability Law Center (multiple locations)
Medical, Audiology, and Speech Pathology
Below are the listed medical resources that are known to work with those that are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Anchorage School District Audiology Department
- Alaska Native Medical Center – Audiology/ENT
- Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center
- Early hearing Detection & Intervention Program (EHDI)
- Universal Newborn Screening
- School-Age Screening
- Early Intervention/Infant Learning Program
- Alaska Center for Ear, Nose and Throat (ACENT)
- Northern Hearing Services (multiple locations)
- Providence Alaska Medical Center (multiple locations)
- Southcentral Foundation
- Listen2Learn Speech Therapy
Specialist in Counseling and Therapy
- Alaska Behavioral Health
- Providence Medical Group – Behavioral Health Services
- Psychological Services Center at UAA
Other Resources
- Alaska Deaf Council
- Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
- American Society for Deaf Children
- Beginnings
- Deaf Awareness Week
- Deaf Child Worldwide
- DCMP
- Gallaudet University
- Hands & Voices
- National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Online Itinerant
A pdf compilation of relevant resources for Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf Blind Alaskans (last updated October 2017)