Disabilities

Speech and Hearing

Deaf/Blind Central
Michigan Services for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deaf/Blind
Central Michigan University
105 Sloan Hall
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Phone: (989) 774-2725 (Voice & TTY accessible)
Toll free (888) 758-0508 Fax: (989) 774-1572
E-mail:dbcen@cmich.edu

National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is the world's first and largest technological college for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. It is one of eight colleges of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), a privately endowed, coeducational university that is student centered and career focused. RIT was founded in 1829, and NTID was formally established by Congress in 1965. It became one of RIT's colleges in 1968. One of the unique features of RIT/NTID is that more than 1,100 deaf and hard of hearing students study, share residence halls and enjoy social life together with more than 14,000 hearing students.
Mission To provide deaf and hard-of-hearing students with outstanding state-of-the-art technical and professional programs, complemented by a strong liberal arts and sciences curriculum, that prepare them to live and work in the mainstream of a rapidly changing global community and enhances their lifelong learning.
Technology Students benefit from a high-tech learning center, smart classrooms with state-of-the-art computers and multimedia technologies, computer engineering facilities, digital printing presses, laser optics lab, robotics program and fully-networked residence halls equipped with strobe light fire alarms and telephone amplifiers.
Location: National Technical Institute for the Deaf
52 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
Office of Admissions: 585-475-6700 (voice/TTY)

Michigan Divison on Deaf and Hard of Hearing
The agency provides training, technical assistance, accommodations, research and other services to improve access to communication for deaf and hard of hearing people in Michigan.
Call: 517-335-6004
V/TTY: 877–499–6232
V/TTYFax: 517-335–7773
Videophone IP: dodhh.net
E–Mail: dodhh@michigan.gov

Dawn Kutney, Administrative Consultant
Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association
790 W. Lake Lansing Road, Suite 500A
East Lansing, MI 48823
Call: (517) 332-5691
E-mail: msha@ix.netcom.com