After meeting in March to discuss the memoir “Chasing Space: an astronaut’s story of grit, grace and second chances” by Leland Melvin, the HLAA-TC Book Club will be reading a novel for April: “True Biz” by Sara Novic. A brief description of the novel from Amazon: “True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, […]
On Tuesday, February 28th the HLAA-TC Book Club met on Zoom to discuss the novel “I Never Promised You A Rose Garden” by Joanne Greenberg and we were honored to welcome author Joanne Greenberg. Ms. Greenberg joined us from her Colorado home and spoke to us about her long career as an author. “Rose Garden”
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On Saturday, February 18th HLAA-TC had our February chapter meeting (on Zoom) and we had Nolan Johnson from MedEl speak to us about “Aural Rehabilitation.” In addition to the resources that Nolan Johnson shared, we also had some people in attendance who shared related and helpful information. See below for a list of resources shared
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The HLAA-TC Book Club is excited to announce that the author, Joanne Greenberg, for our February novel selection will be joining us by Zoom for our book club discussion of her novel “I never promised you a rose garden” on Tuesday, February 28th at 7:00 pm (Central Time). “I never promised you a rose garden”
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On Tuesday, January 24th the HLAA-TC book club met on Zoom to discuss the autobiography “I’ll Scream Later” By Marlee Matlin. The group enjoyed talking about Ms. Matlin’s varied career and life and discussed that Ms. Matlin has become the first deaf director in the DGA (Director’s Guild of America) with her direction of a
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As 2023 starts we wanted to post information about upcoming meetings and book clubs Hearing Loss Association of America- Twin Cities Chapter (HLAA-TC). All HLAA-TC Chapter meetings and HLAA-TC book clubs are happening on Zoom. We hope to eventually offer hybrid meetings (meaning both in person and Zoom) but until we are able to offer
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On Tuesday, November 22nd, the HLAA-TC book club met to discuss the poignantly written memoir “A Loss For Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family” by Lou Ann Walker. We were joined by author Lou Ann Walker for a discussion of her book about her experience growing up as a hearing child with profoundly
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On Tuesday, October 25th the HLAA-TC Book Club met on Zoom to discuss the October book selection: the novel “The Quality Silence” (2015) By Rosamund Lupton. (Author Rosamund Lupton was unable to join us.) The group enjoyed a varied and interesting discussion on themes related to the book, including deafness, isolation, the environment and technology.
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The new season (2022-2023) of HLAA-TC monthly chapter meetings begins with our first meeting on September 17th from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. The September meeting will be a Zoom meeting (email secretary@hlaatc.singlerdesign.com for the Zoom meeting link.) You can always find information about our meetings on the Meetings page of our website. Below is
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A summary of the August book club with an announcement of the September book.
September Book: “The Radical Lives of Helen Keller” with author Kim E. Nielsen attending Read More »
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P.O. Box 26021
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