Hearing and visual resources

We've compiled a list of groups that offer guides and resources for the hearing and visually disabled. We encourage you to contact them for more information.
 

California Assistive Services resource list

This guide, published by Caltrans, gives you information about businesses that advertise assistive services for customers and employees with disabilities. The guide lists various contacts, including resources on the Internet.

To get a copy, contact:

Civil Rights Program Office of Equal Opportunity
1820 Alhambra Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95816

  (916) 227-8938 [TTY: (916) 227-9428]

Through the maze, a guide to health care and insurance rights and resources

This self-help handbook serves as a resource for the disabled with answers to questions about access to health care, insurance and public health benefits in California.

To get a copy, contact:

Disability Rights Advocates
449 25th Street, Suite 303
Oakland, CA 94612

E-mail: lthaccess@dralegal.org
Web: www.dralegal.org

California Department of Social Services

The State of California has many departments and groups to help the hearing and visually disabled. Browse through these resources by region.

All of California

The Office of Services to the Blue (OSB)

The OSB has published a comprehensive directory of social, financial, medical and technology services and products available throughout the state. The Handbook of Resources and Services for Persons Who Are Visually Impaired is available free of charge in large-print and Braille, or on computer disk or audiotape.

Contact the Office of Services to the Blind at:

744 P Street, M.S. 6-94
Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 657-3327
V/TDD, Fax: (916) 653-4001

Northern California
Communique interpreting

This group offers sign language interpreting and education in the area from Monterey to the Oregon border. It arranges interpreters for deaf individuals who use American Sign Language and offers 24-hour emergency interpreting.

Contact Communique Interpreting at:

856 4th Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Telephone/TTY: (707) 546-6869
TTY Only: (707) 547-4814
Fax: (707) 546-1770
E-mail: info@cqterps.com
Web: www.cqterps.com

Sacramento Valley Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (SaVRID)

The Northern California branch of this group has a national registry of interpreters for the deaf, providing sign language interpretation by both deaf and hearing interpreters.
Contact them at:

Sacramento Valley Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (SaVRID)
P.O. Box 255084 Sacramento, CA 95865-5084
E-mail: mailto:Information@SaVRID.org
Web: www.savrid.org

Southern California

Special Task Interpretation for the Deaf (STID), Inc.

This group provides sign language interpreting for the deaf, specializing in health care.
Contact STID at:

Special Task Interpretation for the Deaf (STID), Inc.
P.O. Box 482
Atwood, CA 928111

Voice or TTY: (800) 784-3847
Voice or TTY (toll): (714) 996-3774
Fax: (714) 528-1441

Southern California Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (SCRID)

The Southern California branch of this group offers a national registry of interpreters for the deaf, providing sign language interpretation by both deaf and hearing interpreters.

Contact SCRID at:

Southern California Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (SCRID)
P.O. Box 3601
Long Beach, CA 90803

Web: www.scrid.org

Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness, Inc. (GLAD)

Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness, Inc. (GLAD)

GLAD provides outreach programs to deaf people in their own communities and in their own language. Current health education programs offered by GLAD include AIDS education, family planning, sexually transmitted diseases and substance abuse. LIFE SIGNS, a 24-hour medical sign language interpreter referral service, assists in any situations where an individual requires immediate medical care in an emergency room, emergency admittance to a hospital, urgent care center or any emergency matters with law enforcement personnel. The program serves eight counties in Southern California.

Contact GLAD at:

2222 Laverna Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90041

Telephone/TTY: (213) 478-8000
Fax: (213) 550-4205
E-mail: mailto:mrsummers@aol.com