(Vision, Hearing, Speech, and Language Impairment)
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf- South Carolina Chapter
P.O. Box 2451, Columbia, SC 29202.
Website: www.agbell.org
Email address: info@scagbell.org
Services available: Provides assistance and support to individuals with hearing impairments.
For more information please visit agency’s website.
CNI Systems
800 Polar St. Cayce, SC 29033
Telephone: (803) 926-9977 Fax: (803) 926-9991
Website: www.assistive-technology.com
Email address: cnisys@bellsouth.net
Services available: Information, resources and products for people with learning, speech, vision or hearing difficulties.
Accept military family members. For more information please call the agency or visit agency’s website.
Easter Seals Society of South Carolina
P.O. Box 5715, Columbia, SC 29250.
Telephone: (803) 256-0735 Toll free: 1-800-951-4090.
Fax: (803) 765-9765.
Web Address: www.sc.easterseals.com
Services available: Provides or purchases rehabilitation and relates services for persons with physical disabilities; services may include physical, occupational or speech therapy, durable medical equipment, orthotics, and prosthetics.
Accept military family members. For more information please call the agency or visit agency’s website.
Federation Center for the Blind
119 South Kilbourne Road, Columbia, SC 29205.
Telephone: (803) 254-3777 Fax: (803) 252-5655.
Website: http://www.nfbsc.net/default.html
Email address: nfbsc@sc.rr.com
Services available: Education of blindness, information and referral, aids and appliances for the blind, recreational and volunteer opportunities.
Accept military family members. For more information please call the agency or visit agency’s website.
Programs in Special Education – Department of Educational Psychology
College of Education – University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia, SC 29208.
Telephone: (803) 777-5743 Fax: (803) 777-2824.
Website: www.ed.sc.edu
Services available: Provides a registry of professionals who offer consultation; provides information for pre-school children with disabilities.
Accept military family members. For more information please call the agency or visit agency’s website.
Relay South Carolina
Telephone: TTY: 1-800-735-8583 (SC only).
Website: www.relaysouthcarolina.com
Services available: This is a free service that provides full telephone accessibility to people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind, and speech-disabled. This service allows text-telephone (TTY) users to communicate with standard telephone users through specially training relay operators. Services are available 24 hours a day and seven days a week.
Eligibility: People who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind, and speech-disabled.
Accept military family members. For more information please visit agency’s website.
SC Assistive Technology Program University of South Carolina (USC)
School of Medicine Center for Disability Resources
University Center for Excellence, Columbia, SC 29208
Telephone: (803) 935-5263 Fax: (803) 935-5342.
Website: www.sc.edu/sctp
E-Mail Address: youngs@cdd.sc.edu
Services available: Focuses on getting assistive technology into the hands of people with disabilities so that they might live, work, learn and be a more independent part of the community; provides a short-term equipment loan and demonstration program, training, technical assistance, publications, and interactive CD-ROM (SC Curriculum Access through AT), and an AT information listserv; works with consumers, service providers, state agencies and policy makers who affect AT acquisition and IT accessibility.
Accept military family members. For more information please call the agency or visit the website.
South Carolina Association of the Deaf
437 Center Street, West Columbia, SC 29169.
Telephone: (803) 794-3175 Fax: (803) 794-4420.
Website: www.scadservices.org
Email address: info@scadservices.org
Person to Contact: Lee Ann Boynton – Administrative Assistant.
Services available: Provides a clearinghouse and referral services; offers deafness related assistive technology devices, books, videotapes and accessories.
Eligibility: Individuals with hearing disability.
Accept military family members. For more information please call the agency or contact agency’s website.
University of South Carolina Speech and Hearing Center
1601 Saint Julian Place Columbia, SC 29204
Telephone: (803) 777-2614/2717 Fax: (803) 253-4143
Website: www.sph.sc.edu/shc
Eligibility: Speech or hearing disability.
Services available: Provides screenings, diagnostic evaluations and remediation services for speech and language disorders in children and adults; provides consultation regarding augmentative/alternative communication; cochlear implant candidacy and family-supported intervention.
Professional Staff: Speech/Language Pathologists and Audiologists.
Accept active military family members. For information about fees and pre-interview requirements please call the agency or visit agency’s website.
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