Local, State, and National Resources
Ohio Hearing and Vision Services
Hearing and Vision Services Map PDF
Vision Services
Ohio School for the Blind
Contact: Jennifer Remeis
All Counties/Statewide Coverage 5220 N. High St.
Columbus, OH 43214
Phone: (614) 728-8805
Fax: (614) 752-1504
jremeis@ossb.oh.gov
Hearing Services
Clermont County Board of Developmental Disabilities
Contact: Beth Martin
Serves: Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette, Hamilton, Putnam, Van Wert, Warren
2040 Us Highway 50
Batavia, OH 45103
Phone: (513) 732-4915
bmartin@clermontcountydd.org
Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center
Contact: Bridgid Whitford
Serves: Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina
11635 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone: (216) 325-7585
Fax: (216) 325-7685
bwhiteford@chsc.org
Deaf Community Resource Center
Contact: Karyn Sleppy
Serves: Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Shelby
732 S. Ludlow Street Dayton, OH 45402
Phone: (937) 222-2434
Fax: (937) 558-0745
ksleppy@dcrcohio.org
Deaf Services Center
Contact: Betsy Jesenko
Serves: Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Union
5830 N. High Street
Worthington, OH 43085
Phone: (614) 841-1991
Fax: (614) 841-4909
betsyj@dsc.org
Akron Children’s Hospital
Contact: Courtney Sprang
Serves: Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Gallia, Guernsey, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Hocking, Holmes, Huron, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Lawrence, Lucas, Madison, Mahoning, Marion, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, Ottawa, Paulding, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Portage, Richland, Ross, Sandusky, Scioto, Seneca, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Vinton, Washington, Williams, Wood, Wyandot, Wayne
Family Child Learning Center
143 Northwest Ave., Building A Tallmadge, OH 44278
Phone: (330) 633-2055
Fax: (330) 633-2658
csprang@akronchildrens.org
Vision and Hearing Services
DODD has contracted with several agencies to provide vision services for children with vision impairments and family training around communication options for families with a child who is deaf or hard of hearing. Service coordinators should use these maps to find the provider assigned to their county.
There are many resources available for families who have a child who is deaf or hard of hearing. The National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM) has published a guide of some of these resources. You can access the guide in English or Spanish. NCHAM has also published Communicate with Your Child for new parents of a child with hearing loss for communicating with their child. This brochure is available in multiple languages, including Spanish and Chinese.
The Ohio Hearing Aid Assistance Program (OHAAP), administered by the Ohio Department of Health, provides assistance to families with children, birth to twenty-one years of age, with hearing impairments, to purchase hearing aids, earmolds, assistive listening devices, external cochlear implant processor replacements, and/or hearing aid batteries.
The Ohio Center for Deafblind Education and DODD collaborated to create this resource for EI service coordinators and local teams who may be serving children with hearing and/or vision loss. The document underscores the importance of early identification, provides red flags for hearing and vision loss, lists diagnoses and conditions putting children at higher risk for hearing and vision loss, and offers guidance on assessment and program planning.