Other Resources
- “Deafness in Disguise” Bibliography
- Hearing Device Collections
- Online Exhibits of Hearing Devices
- Online Resources on Deafness and Hearing Impairment
- Hearing Aid Manufacturers’ Pamphlets and Brochures from the 1940s & 1950s:
- Beltone – “New Discoveries to Help the Deaf Hear ... ” (1950)
- Rochester Hearing Aids – “What You Should Know about Hearing Aids” (1950)
- Sonotone – “Fashion: Your Passport to Poise” (1950)
- Sonotone – “Better Hearing Styled for Men” (1950)
- Zenith – “Learn Again to Hear” (1945)
Hearing Device Collections
The following individuals and institutions have hearing devices collections. Some of the institutions possess distinct collections of devices; others have many devices within their general collections. Not all repositories are open to the general public, however. Please contact each repository for more information about its collection.
- Akademie Für Hörgeräte-Akustik (Institution of the Federal Guild of Hearing Aid Acousticians)
(Lübeck, Germany) - Alexander Graham Bell Association – Volta Bureau
(Washington, D.C.) - Amplivox/Ultratone Collection (formerly Amplivox Museum)
(United Kingdom)
Roger Sabine - The Baldwin Collection at Western Michigan University – Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Western Michigan University
(Kalamazoo, Michigan)
Richard Baldwin, Ed.D.
Patty Baldwin, M.S.
Harold Bate, Ph.D. - British Museum of Science
(London, England) - British Society of Audiology Museum at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
(Reading, England) - Bund Schweizerischer Schwerhorigenverein
(Switzerland) - Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum
(Ingolstadt, Germany) - Deutsches Museum
(München, Germany) - Hor-Center
(Gossau, Switzerland) - The Smithsonian Institution
(Washington, D.C.)
Contact person: Judy Chelnick - The Roy F. Sullivan Private Collection
(Garden City, New York)
Roy F. Sullivan, Ph.D. - Stichting Historische (includes the collection of Arnoud Beem)
Beter Horen
Hoortoestellen Nederland
Contact Person: Anton Veraart - Thackray Museum, (Collection donated by Lord Stevens of Ludgate, son of the founder of Amplivox)
(Leeds, England)
Contact person: Joanne Stewardson, Senior Curator - The Touma Collection – Touma Medical Museum
(Huntington, West Virginia)
Dr. Joseph B. Touma, M.D.
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Online Exhibits of Hearing Devices
- Hugh Hetherington On-line Hearing Aid Museum
- The Kenneth Berger Hearing Aid Museum and Archives at Kent State University
- The Oticon Eriksholm Museum
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Online Resources on Deafness and Hearing Impairment
- Acoustical Society of America
- Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- American Academy of Audiology
- American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
- American Association of the Deaf-Blind
- American Auditory Society
- American Society for Deaf Children
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- American Tinnitus Association
- Association of Late-Deafened Adults
- Association of Medical Professionals with Hearing Losses
- Association for Research in Otolaryngology
- Better Hearing Institute
- Children of Deaf Adults
- Coalition for Global Hearing Health
- Council for Exceptional Children
- Deafness Research Foundation
- The Ear Foundation
- Educational Audiology Association
- Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers
- Hearing Center Online
- Hearing Loss Association of America
- Hearing Loss Web
- International Federation of Hard of Hearing People
- League for the Hard of Hearing
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- National Association of the Deaf
- National Center for Voice and Speech
- National Council on Disability
- National Cued Speech Association
- National Hearing Conservation Association
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
- Vestibular Disorders Association
- World Federation of the Deaf