A reminder that our speaker at the Saturday, March 19th HLAA-TC Chapter Meeting is Kristen L. Swan (Regions Hospital Health and Wellness Program Serving Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard-of-Hearing) and her talk is entitled “How Hearing Loss Affects Our Communication Partners.” This would be a good meeting to attend with your friends and family and since […]
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HLAA-Twin Cities Virtual Book Club is meeting on Zoom to discuss the mystery novel “The Listening Eye” by Patricia Wentworth. We are alternating between discussing nonfiction and fiction books, last month book club (February 2021) we discussed a memoir and this month is a novel. The synopsis of the book from Amazon is: “Paulina Paine
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If you read the February HLAA-TC newsletter that was just released last week you read about several opportunities to participate in research studies or product research. One such opportunity is product research from the Mayo Clinic: The Mayo Clinic is developing a product for hearing loss through an educational program as part of the Office
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The HLAA-TC Book Club has chosen Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. (Central Time) for our next book club session. We alternate between reading fiction and nonfiction each month. In February the nonfiction book we are discussing is “Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust” by Renee Hartman with Joshua
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As we mentioned earlier, the HLAA-TC Book Club is taking a break in January. However, we already have the first several books chosen for 2022. The nonfiction book we are reading for February is “Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust” by Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene. We haven’t selected a date for
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After meeting (virtually on Zoom) almost every month since April in 2021, the small but mighty HLAA-TC Virtual Book Club has decided to take the month of January off and will resume in February. After reviewing many books both fiction and nonfiction the group has made a preliminary reading schedule to get us started. As
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On Saturday, December 18th those who logged on to the HLAA-TC Zoom monthly chapter meeting at 9:30 were greeted by the HLAA-TC Social Media Specialist Laura Hagemann. Laura gave a brief explanation of the difference between the Facebook Page (HLAA-Twin Cities) and the Facebook Group (HLAA-TC). A quick way to describe the difference between the
As we posted about earlier a local Minneapolis movie theater has made the incredible decision to have ALL MOVIES, EVERY DAY at St. Anthony Main (in Minneapolis, MN) open captioned. This means the captions show on the screen and it makes movies more accessible to a wide range of audiences (including deaf and hard of
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In a wonderful new development for disability rights, Minnesota is now the first state in the country to have a movie theater with 100% open captioning ALL THE TIME! St. Anthony Main Theaters in Minneapolis, MN now offers open captioning all day, every movie, every showtime, every day. Having open captions on every movie every
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We haven’t had a regular “Hearing News Update” in a while and we just wanted to post about some various points of interest related to hearing loss. HLAA National News: HLAA Webinar and Virtual Meetings Recordings (HLAA website) Hearing Life eNews Sign-up (the twice per month HLAA e-news) U.S. House of Representatives Expands Medicare to
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