Hearing Loss Association of America | Boston Chapter
Serving Boston, Massachusetts and the surrounding area, our mission is to empower people who have hearing loss by facilitating opportunities for social engagement, education and skill development.
The Department of Speech, Language and Hearing, Aural Rehabilitation Laboratory Sciences at University of Connecticut is conducting a qualitative research study on auditory fatigue / listening fatigue.
HLAA members and friends with hearing loss who would like to participate can learn more about the study on the attached flyer and contact Alison.Marinelli@uconn.edu.
Join HLAA Eastern Connecticut Chapter for its regular monthly meeting
Saturday, December 17, 2016 at 10 am
Re-scheduled to snow date: January 21, 2017 at 10:00 AM
Storrs campus of the University of Connecticut
Second Floor Conference Room of the Phillips Communication Sciences Building
850 Bolton Road (next to the Nathan Hale Inn)
Storrs, CT
Free Parking on site
Our meetings are educational, informative, and supportive. Our meetings provide an opportunity for people with hearing loss to meet and socialize with other people with hearing loss.
Our discussion in December will be led by Jackie DiFrancesco (Doctoral candidate in Audiology at UConn,) who will explore relationships between hearing loss and other health conditions. Please join us for some helpful information and an opportunity to share some time with other people with hearing loss. Bring your family members, bring your friends.
Meetings are open to everyone, including family and friends of people with hearing loss. Meetings are captioned and an induction loop is available.
Please call Randy at 860-659-8082 or email us at hlaaeasternctchapter@cox.net for additional information or updates on meeting cancellation due to weather. Cancellation notices due to weather will be posted on www.wfsb.com or you can call WFSB at 1-800-662-6505
An interactive workshop with Jonathan O’Dell Technology Director, Mass. Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 7:00– 8:30 PM
Come early for coffee and conversation
Plymouth Public Library
132 South Street, Plymouth, MA
An expert on hearing loss, with two cochlear implants, Jon will talk about how individuals with hearing loss are affected by it and how it shapes their entire lives, and rarely in a positive and productive way. There is a whole side to hearing loss that is literally being swept under the rug. So let’s learn to think differently about hearing loss! If you have a hearing problem, you won’t miss a word of this talk. CART (real-time captioning) will be provided. For further information on hearing loss, go to: Hearingloss.org
The Mission of HLAA is to open the world of communication to people with hearing loss by providing information, education, support and advocacy. HLAA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit support group for people with hearing loss. All are welcome to attend.
A New England Holiday Gathering at the historic Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, 72 Wayside Inn Road, Sudbury, MA 01776 (the oldest operating Inn in the country – since 1716) with special guests: Katherine Bouton and Beth Wilson.
Brunch: (See the luscious Wayside Inn Brunch Menu)
Presentations:
Sponsored by:
About Our Presenters:
A life long advocate for people with disabilities, Beth Wilson is well known in New England for her witty and practical workshops on hearing loss management. She earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and worked for 33 years at Raytheon, from which she is now retired. Dr. Beth is currently an Adjunct Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins University in their Master of Science in Systems Engineering programs. Born with a hearing loss, she has been a member of the Hearing Loss Association of America since 1986 and was the Executive Director from 2001-2002.
Katherine Bouton is a longtime former editor at the New York Times, including 10 years as Deputy Editor at The New York Times Magazine. She continues to write for many sections of the Times, and is a weekly blogger at AARP Health. She is the author of the critically acclaimed ”Shouting Won’t Help” and “Living Better With Hearing Loss. Katherine developed idiopathic progressive hearing loss at age 30 and today wears a cochlear implant and a hearing aid. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Hearing Loss Association of America and is President of HLAA New York City Chapter. Katherine is married to the writer Daniel Menaker and they have two grown children.
With her dual perspective as an audiologist, late-deafened adult and bilateral cochlear implant recipient, Tina shares with the audience strategies to best communicate with their audiologists during appointments. We discuss some terminology, important information to share and resources for continued learning.
Tina Childress, AuD, CCC-A is an educational audiologist in mainstream and residential school settings, technology and social media aficionado, late-deafened adult and bilateral cochlear implant recipient. With her unique perspective and passion for sharing information through social media, she is a sought out international presenter and adjunct lecturer to families, adults and professionals on a variety of topics but especially Hearing Assistive Technology, apps, cochlear implants, advocacy and effective strategies for coping with hearing loss. Dr. Childress is active on many local and national Boards and Committees where she is a strong advocate for accessibility and disseminating resources. Among the honors she has received, Tina was a 2013 recipient of the Oticon Focus on People Awards, which honor outstanding individuals who prove that hearing loss does not limit a person’s ability to live a full, productive, and even inspiring life.
Celebration ’16: A Collaborative Event Co-hosted with ALDA Boston with:
at The Mosesian Theater at Arsenal Center for the Arts, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
Hearing loss isn’t funny – but Gael Hannan is.
This tour de force solo show was drawn from a lifetime of communication muck-ups. In a compelling and hilarious performance accompanied by acclaimed violist Alexander Vavilov, Gael brought the world of hearing loss out of the shadows, taking us from the horror of childhood spelling tests, to the Diary of a Mad Hearing Aid User, to the comic dangers of bluffing your way through life’s conversations – interwoven with the poignant story of a woman’s struggle to communicate with the people she loves.
For anyone who has hearing loss, or who knows someone who does, or who simply says pardon more than three times a day, Huh? Life with a Cranky Cochlea is a must-see.
With thanks to our generous sponsors:
Rehabilitation Audiologist Dusty Jessen will present on “Five Keys to Communication Success” at Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary on May 1, 2016.
About this program:
Accurate communication exchanges are critical to creating and maintaining quality relationships in the home, the workplace, and the community. After a decade of working with people who are frustrated by hearing loss, Dr. Jessen has found that most of her patients and their family members experience similar communication challenges. While hearing aids and hearing assistive technology has improved drastically over the past decade, they remain only a partial solution to communication breakdowns. Communication is a complex puzzle that can only be solved when all the pieces are placed properly.
In order to make this process easy and effective, Dr. Jessen has developed a simple tool called the “Five Keys to Communication Success.” When used consistently, these five keys can effectively conquer communication breakdowns in nearly any situation and empower those with hearing loss to take a global look at communication, and make the necessary changes to create a situation where communication success is possible.
The Five Keys also empower friends, family members, and co-workers of those with hearing loss to play an active role in ensuring a successful communication exchange.
This presentation will teach the participants how to apply the Five Keys to Communication Success in several of the most difficult communication situations. Special attention will be given to the various hearing assistive technologies (HAT) that are available today, and how those can be utilized in various situations.
The stories, education, and practice provided by this seminar will ensure that each participant is equipped with the Five Keys to Communication Success!
CART provided. Parking vouchers available to attendees.
An Evening Program with Mike Harvey, Ph.D.: “Nurturing Resilience In the Face of Hearing Loss,” lecture & experiential role playing, on April 5, 2016 at the Brookline Library, Coolidge Corner branch.
Mike Harvey is one of our most important resources for learning to skillfully negotiate the emotional impact of hearing loss. His workshop combines lecture with experiential role playing and focusses on the effects of several dysfunctional, disempowering thoughts as well as the more functional, empowering thoughts that many persons with hearing loss experience.
Dr. Harvey is a clinical psychologist specializing in emotional issues related to hearing loss. He provides consultation and training on hearing loss, vicarious trauma and mental health issues. In addition to his private practice in Framingham, MA, he is an adjunct faculty member at Boston University and a consulting faculty member at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Department of Audiology. Dr. Harvey is a frequent contributor to HLAA’s award-winning Hearing Loss Magazine.
“How to Succeed at Legislative Advocacy in Massachusetts: A Two-Part Program,” March 19, 2016
When: Saturday, March 19 at 1:00 PM at Old South Church, Boston
Presented by: Statewide Advisory Council (SAC) Members Ellen Perkins and Betsy McCarthy,
Attendees will learn about bills in the Massachusetts legislature that are favorably reported out of committee and sharpened strategies to succeed in getting them passed.
