MaineHealth Behavioral Health provides expert behavioral health and case management services for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind and late-deafened. Our goal is to to remove communication barriers that may impact health care services for people with hearing impairments. Services are available in person and through telehealth platforms.
Compassionate behavioral health care for people with hearing impairments
Our licensed deaf services clinicians understand the unique challenges faced by people living with hearing impairments. Our providers are skilled in American Sign Language (ASL), spoken English, Signed Exact English (SEE), Visual Gesturing (VG) and are familiar with Deaf culture. We support hearing-impaired people of all ages who may be dealing with:
- Anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder
- Parenting challenges
- Pediatric behavioral and emotional issues
- Abusive relationships
- Sexual and physical abuse
- Family crisis
- Grief and acceptance of a hearing loss diagnosis
- Speech sound disorders
Services
- Behavioral health evaluations and counseling
- Case management
- Therapy
- Screening and diagnose
- Individual or group therapy
- Family therapy
Our case managers partner with clients and their support system to evaluate, monitor and coordinate services that support behavioral health. This includes:
- Care planning & coordination
- Social services
- Advocacy
More about our services
Our team provides resources for patients, families, health care professionals and the community.
- Connect children, parents and families to community resources
- Coordinate services and streamline communication between multiple providers and organizations
- Develop trainings and consultations
- Provide consultations and resources to providers
- Educational Webinars for families and teens
- Lead support groups for Deaf/hard of hearing teens and parents
Through our advocacy work we seek to increase awareness of the unique needs of the hearing impaired community. We offer:
- Parenting skills training
- Collaboration with individuals and agencies to improve accessibility
- Consultation for caregivers
- Advocacy Trainings to Deaf/Hard of Hearing Teens
- Consultation for resources and Mental Health services to Community Members and Providers
- Provision of Mental Health, Culture, and Hearing Loss trainings
- Provision of Support Groups to children and families
