Resources

 

Click here to find resources on local looped venues, city disability services, entertainment access, and more!

 

NYC Government

NYC Disability Service Facilitators

Disability Service Facilitators (DSFs) are appointed by city agencies to connect New Yorkers with disabilities to city government and oversee ADA compliance and other laws or regulations concerning accessibility.

NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities

Find resources, initiatives, and events that advocate for and support accessibility.

Hearing Loop Resources

Local Looped Venues

Find NYC venues and businesses with hearing loops installed.

Looping Vendors

Find NYC vendors for hearing loop installation.

Books on Hearing Loss

These books are about adult-onset hearing loss. Books about Deaf Culture and books for children are not included. Please email info@hearinglossnyc.org if you have a suggested book for this list. And if someone would like to compile a list of books for the Deaf or for children, please contact us.

  • Alexander, Rebecca, with Sascha Alper. Not Fade Away. Gotham Books, 2014.

  • Bouton, Katherine. Shouting Won’t Help: Why I—and 50 Million Other Americans—Can’t Hear You. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013

  • Bouton, Katherine. Living Better with Hearing Loss. Workman, 2015

  • Bouton, Katherine. Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss. RiverWest Press, 2018.

  • Chorost, Michael. Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

  • Denworth, Lydia. I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language. Plume, 2014.

  • Groves, Shana. Confessions of a Lip Reading Mom. Colby, KS: CrossRiver Media Group, 2013.

  • Eberts, Shari & Gael Hannan- Hear & Beyond: Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss, Page Two, 2022. 

  • Hannan, Gael. The Way I Hear It: A Life with Hearing Loss. Friesen Press, 2018.

  • Harvey, Michael A. Odyssey of Hearing Loss: Tales of Triumph. San Diego: DawnSign Press, 2004.

  • Holston, Noel. Life After Deaf: My Misadventures in Hearing Loss and Recovery. Skyhorse, 2019.

  • Horowitz, Seth S. The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012.

  • Lin, Frank, and Nicholas Read. Hearing Loss for Dummies. 2022.

  • Lodge, David. Deaf Sentence. New York: Viking, 2008. (Fiction.)

  • Myers, David G. A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss. Yale University Press, 2000.

  • Owen, David. Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World. Penguin, 2019.

  • Porter-Vaughn, Latisha. How We Hear: A Useful Guide for the Hearing to Understand Hearing Loss. Bowker, 2023. 

  • Romoff, Arlene. Hear Again: Back to Life with a Cochlear Implant. New York: League for the Hard of Hearing, 2000.

  • Romoff, Arlene. Listening Closely: A Journey to Bilateral Hearing. Imagine! Publishing, 2011.

  • Shea, Gerald. Song Without Words: Discovering My Deafness Halfway Through Life. Da Capo Press, 2013.

  • Swiller, Josh. The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa. Henry Holt, 2007.