Deafness Research Foundation

Dedicated to Healthy Hearing

DRF is the leading national source of private funding for research in hearing and balance science. Our grants have resulted in treatments for hearing and balance related conditions helping those living with hearing loss and protecting those at risk.

DRF also publishes Hearing Health magazine. Our publication has a circulation of approximately 30,000 and recently won an APEX 2009 Award of Excellence for Magazine & Journal Writing. This valuable consumer resource provides information on technology, treatment, research and issues affecting people with hearing loss.


The Miracle Worker comes to Broadway




The Miracle Worker is coming to Broadway in a groundbreaking production that is fully accessible to theatergoers who are blind or deaf. Starring Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Tony Award® nominee Alison Pill (The Lieutenant of Inishmore).

The Miracle Worker tells the story of real-life Medal-of-Freedom-winner Helen Keller and the extraordinary teacher who taught her to communicate, Annie Sullivan.

Save nearly 50% with this exclusive offer! $59.00 (Monday - Friday); $65.00 (Saturday & Sunday)

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Irene's eBay Auction

Irene Goodman is pleased to announce a 2nd eBay event that will auction off 2 critiques of partial manuscripts each month, starting in February 2010. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be donated to Deafness Research Foundation and the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

You can choose which foundation you want to benefit. Selections can be made once the auction actually begins.

For more information or to bid, click here

Deafness Research Foundation is awarded the 2009 APEX AWARD

Congratulations to Deafness Research Foundation for receiving the 2009 Apex Award for Hearing Health Magazine and its website! For more information about the Apex Award, click here

Deafness Research Center

DRF Partners with NIDCD's "It's A Noisy Planet" Campaign

Deafness Research Foundation is excited to announce their partnership with the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders' (NIDCD) campaign, "It's A Noisy Planet", in an effort to increase awareness about the cause and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) among parents of children ages 8 to 12.  To learn more about how to protect your own hearing or the hearing of your child, click here