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, […]
Thank you to those who joined us for another virtual/Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 18th and thank you to our speaker. Jonathan Taylor spoke to us about music and hearing loss. Jonathan performed as a trombonist but after his hearing loss progressed Jonathan retired as a musician and has been active in his local HLAA-
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(The following blog was originally posted the morning of March 15th and a few corrections were made [namely email address corrected and more information added].) Please join HLAA-TC on Zoom on Saturday, March 18th from 9:30 am – 12:00 pm (Central Time) to learn more about music and hearing loss from former musician Jonathan Taylor.
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Please join HLAA-TC on Zoom on Saturday, March 18th from 9:30 am – 12:00 pm (Central Time) to learn more about music and hearing loss from former musician Jonathan Taylor. Jon is currently Vice President of the HLAA- New York City Chapter (the following bio was taken from their website): “Jon Taylor, Vice President, HLAA-NYC: It
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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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On Saturday, February 25th from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm HLAA-TC and the MN Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing (MNCDHH) are having a Town Hall on Zoom. See below for more information on the Town Hall (information taken from the MNCDHH Town Hall event page) [REGISTER: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtfuGurzMoGdCGnir8RZjW1lRscYI8AurY ] The Minnesota Commission
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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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