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HLAA-TC Chapter Meetings on hold until 2026, book club continues as scheduled

Attention: all HLAA-TC CHAPTER meetings are on hold temporarily for the remainder of 2025. Please read the November 2025 HLAA-TC newsletter for more details. Be sure to follow us on social media where we will continue to post regularly: Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and join the conversation on our Facebook Group page. Book Club Zoom meeting […]

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December HLAA-TC Meeting: Holiday Party and Laughs (please RSVP)

This Saturday, December 16th, the HLAA-TC chapter meeting won’t have a speaker and will instead be a holiday party with games (BINGO, yes for both Zoom and in person attendees) and watching funny videos from comics talking about hearing loss. Our theme is You Just Gotta Laugh! and we will be doing our best to

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Discussion Questions for Communication Partners from presentation by Kristen L. Swan

On Saturday, March 19th, 2022 HLAA-TC had Kristen L. Swan present and facilitate a discussion between members and their Communication Partners (CP). It was a very engaging discussion with a lot of audience participation. We hope to have a discussion meeting like this again but until then below are the discussion questions shared by Kristen

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Opportunities for participation in studies and product research

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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HLAA-TC to participate in Give To The Max Day on Nov. 18th

HLAA-TC will again be participating in the annual initiative to help raise money for charities and nonprofits called “Give to the Max Day.” It’s on November 18th this year. It’s a day when participating charities and nonprofits have a chance to receive extra money through GiveMN. We participated the last two years and are hoping

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Instructions for using Zoom to attend HLAA-TC meetings

Instructions for Using Zoom for our Monthly Chapter Meetings  (Published in the September 2020 newsletter and saved on the HLAA-TC website under the Meetings, and Blog tabs.) All information on using Zoom was gathered from the Zoom Website. All monthly chapter meetings will be held on Zoom for this 2020-2021 season. The first meeting will be

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Newsletter Article Repost: Social Distancing and Hearing Loss

Social distancing has magnified problems for people with severe hearing loss By Dwight Maxa, HLAA-TC Board Member  (Originally published in our May 2020 newsletter) Standing 6 feet or more from the person you are trying to communicate with isn’t easy for many of us. I ended up with a very strange pizza the other day

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