Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Governor Martin O'Malley and Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown

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The Early Childhood Gateway is a web-based resource for parents, professionals and service providers of young children with disabilities, birth through five years old. Developed through a partnership of the Maryland State Department of Education Division of Special Education and Early Intervention Services and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education. http://www.Mdecgateway.org Funded by the US Department of Education, IDEA Part B/C.

How Many Deaf and Hard of
Hearing People Live in Maryland?
Determining the number of people with hearing loss has been a long debated and difficult question to answer. One of the better resources to answer this question, available from Gallaudet Research Institute (GRI), is “A Brief Summary of Estimates for the Size of the Deaf Population in the USA Based on Available Federal Data and Published Research” located at: http://gri.gallaudet.edu/index.php.

The Telecommunications Access Maryland (TAM/Maryland Relay) developed the following data to help explain Maryland’s population based on the 2000 Census. See a detailed breakdown by county with all the numbers.