During the January HLAA-TC meeting, the idea of starting an HLAA-TC monthly book club was mentioned. Other HLAA chapters have done book clubs for years to act as an additional monthly meeting that’s more informal and social. The HLAA-TC book club will start off meeting virtually on Google Meet with the idea that once social […]
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If you got this month’s HLAA-TC newsletter this week you may have seen an article on our next speaker: Darlene Zangara, Ph.D., LPC, the Executive Director for the Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing. Published below is that newsletter article. The talk: Legislative and Commission Updates Speaker: Darlene Zangara, Ph.D., LPC, the Executive Director
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Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), the national chapter, has released data they gathered from a survey on how those with hearing loss are managing the global health pandemic of COVID-19. Please read the survey results here. The key takeaways are that “nearly half of those with hearing loss noticed impacts to other aspects of
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January 16, 2021 marked the first virtual Zoom HLAA-TC chapter meeting of the new year. As we have done in the past, here is a visual summary/ “Round-up” of key talking points that were covered during the meeting. The HLAA-TC board is having a scheduled Zoom meeting that is open to all HLAA-TC members.
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Our January speaker for our monthly HLAA-TC chapter meeting (held on Zoom on Saturday, January 16th at 9:30 am) is Dr. Matthew Winn, Director, Listen Lab, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota. Dr. Winn was scheduled to speak at our October 2020 “Live Well With Hearing Loss” Conference before it was canceled. Dr. Winn published an
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In addition to our own HLAA chapter meeting this month on Zoom, other chapters and the National HLAA organization are providing their meetings online on Zoom as well. The following lists the meetings of interest and how you can attend. On Saturday, January 9th at 1:00 pm (CST) HLAA (the National organization) will be having
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As 2020 closes out and a new year begins those of us at HLAA-TC wanted to provide you with a link to the Communication Access Plan (CAP) developed by HLAA. Access the PDF by clicking on this link: https://www.hearingloss.org/wp-content/uploads/HLAA_HC_Full_Guide.pdf The Communication Access Plan (CAP) is “A Guide for Effective Communication in Health Care” that the
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If you don’t receive the HLAA-TC newsletter, here’s a link to our newest December edition. We encourage you to read the newsletter as it has a lot of chapter news and valuable information regarding hearing and hearing loss. Among the chapter news is the exciting announcement that we will be resuming HLAA-TC virtual meetings on
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In this blog post, we have a variety of helpful website links. The first link of mention is a video that HLAA-TC President Christine Morgan was featured in. Morgan was interviewed by University of Minnesota Journalism student Ashley Clemens. Morgan spoke about how the global health crisis of COVID-19 is affecting the hearing loss community.
It’s Give To The Max Day today, November 19th! Please visit our site on the GTMD website and donate. https://www.givemn.org/organization/Hlaatcmn/ Find out more in this video: Thank you for donating if you are able. This graphic shows ways we plan to use donations received. Thank you for supporting HLAA-TC and we will continue to support the
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