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Hearing News: HLAA Survey reveals new data about face masks & hearing loss

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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 Meeting Roundup (Summary)

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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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January HLAA-TC Monthly Speaker: Dr. Matthew Winn

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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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January Zoom Meetings: HLAA National and HLAA Chapters

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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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Communication Access Plan (link to HLAA PDF)

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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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A List of Virtual HLAA Chapter Meetings by State

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(A list compiled by Laura Hagemann, HLAA-TC) It was mentioned at the October meeting that a list of HLAA virtual chapter meetings would be helpful while our chapter puts a pause on meetings (both physical and virtual) in 2020. The following is a list of chapters doing virtual meetings (as of the time this blog

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HLAA (the national organization) is hosting Virtual Meetings

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The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) national organization is hosting virtual meetings via Zoom in June (Saturday, June 6 1-3 CST) and July (Saturday, July 11 1-3 CST). The meetings will be captioned (just like all the HLAA webinars). Please visit this link to find out more information and to register for the virtual

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HLAA New Orleans Summer Convention Cancellation

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HLAA (the national organization) has decided to cancel the HLAA Convention that was scheduled to take place in June of this year in New Orleans, Louisiana. You can read more about their decision to cancel on the HLAA blog. Like a lot of organizations, HLAA made this decision to cancel the convention due to COVID-19

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Conference Update and News

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Those who have been following this blog and our announcements at our monthly meetings know that we have steadily been preparing for the “Live Well with Hearing Loss” 2020 Conference. We’ve announced various details on this blog and this is a summary. Read to the end of this post for ANOTHER announcement about the conference.

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