ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
- Magothy United Methodist Church of the Deaf at Magothy United Methodist Church, Pasadena
BALTIMORE/BALTIMORE COUNTY
- Christ United Methodist Church of the Deaf at Fulton-Siemers Memorial United Methodist
- (Baltimore)Grace Bible Baptist Church (interpreted services) (Baltimore, MD)
FREDERICK COUNTY
- Christ United Methodist Church of Ballenger Creek, Frederick (interpreted)
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
- Christ Lutheran Church of the Deaf (in Calvary Lutheran Church), Silver Spring
- Deaf Silver Spring Seventh Day Adventist Church at Silver Spring Seventh Day Adventist Church, Silver Spring
- Hampshire View Baptist Deaf Church (Silver Spring, MD)
- Silver Spring Church of Christ, Silver Spring St. Barnabas Mission of the Deaf, Chevy Chase
- St. Martin of Tours, Gaithersburg, MD (interpreted)
- Unitarian Universalist Church, Silver Spring
PRINCE GEORGE's
- Potomac Deaf Assembly of God (Lanham, MD)
- St. Francis of Assisi Deaf Catholic Church at Center for Deaf Ministries, Landover Hills, MD
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (interpreted 11:00 am), Bowie
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church, Beltsville (interpreted)
SCHOOLS
Maryland is home to the Maryland School for the Deaf, and some counties also have deaf education programs:
- Montgomery County schools has three programs:oral - Rock Creek Valley elementary schooltotal - lucy barnsley elementary schoolcued speech - flower valley elementary school
- Prince George's county schools also has services
SIGN LANGUAGE
Maryland offers plenty of opportunities for learning sign language. Just a few of them:
- Montgomery College
- Montgomery County Public Schools, Adult Education
- The Hearing and Speech Agency, Baltimore
- University of Maryland (credit courses)
SOCIAL SERVICES
Maryland'sstate governmenthas an Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
VIRGINIA
The part of Virginia associated with the metro DC region is Northern Virginia, but Northern Virginia has expanded to include more counties and is now reaching as far south as Richmond.
CAPTIONING
Virginia is home to quite a few captioning service providers:
- CaptionMax (South Riding, VA)
- National Capitol Captioning (Arlington, VA)
- National Captioning Institute (Vienna, VA)
- Roland House, Arlington, VA
- Visual Audio Captioning, Fairfax, VA
- VITAC (Arlington, VA)
INTERPRETERS
Interpreters in Virginia can join the Virginia Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (Northern Virginia Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf chapter).NorthernVirginia also has a handful of interpreting agencies:
- Sign Language Interpreting Services, Ltd. (Richmond)
- Signing Hands (Springfield)
- Visual Language Interpeting (Arlington)
MOVIE THEATERS
Several theaters in Virginia are accessible via either open captioning or rear window captioning.
- AMC Springfield Mall (Springfield, rear window captioning)
- AMC Hoffman Center 22 (Alexandria, rear window)
- AMC Potomac Mills 8 (Woodbridge, rear window)
- Loews Tysons Fairfax Square 8 (Fairfax, rear window)
- Regal Ballston Commons (Arlington, open captioning)
- Regal Countryside 20 (Sterling, open captioning)
- Regal Fredricksburg 15 (Fredericksburg, open captioning)
ORGANIZATIONS
Northern Virginia has political and social organizations of the deaf and hard of hearing for all ages:
- Northern VA Assn of the Deaf (under Virginia Association of the Deaf)
- Northern VA Club of the Deaf
- Northern VA Sign Language Club
- Northern Virginia Cued Speech Association
- Northern Virginia United for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children - social events for deaf/hoh children
- NOVA 1 SHHH chapterVeditz Chapter of ASLTA (for northern va sign language teachers)
RELIGION
Relatively few churches and synagogues in Northern Virginia have substantial services for the deaf. Among the few that do, are these:
- Fairfax Church of Christ Deaf Ministry, Fairfax, VA
- McLean Bible Church, McLean, VA
- Grace Community Church (www.trygrace.org), has sign interpreters. Meetings held at Key School in Arlington, VA.
SOCIAL
It is not necessary to belong to an organization to socialize in Northern Virginia. Almost every weekend, it is possible to eat out with deaf and hard of hearing people. Silent suppers and ASL dinners are listed on the NVRC website.
