Living with Hearing Loss
Bluetooth: The Hopeful Future of Hearing Technology (Virtual) March 5th 4-6pm
DON’T MISS IT! The Boston Chapter HLAA will host a Virtual Meeting to explore how bluetooth is changing the game for hearing technology. Join us to learn more!
Bluetooth: The Hopeful Future of Hearing Technology
Learn about upcoming Bluetooth LE Audio, dealing with frustrations, and persevering around technology.
We may sing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” but we can try everything to see if we get what we need.
presented by Andrea Kaneb
hearing technology educator, advocate, and author
Gathering Sound
Saturday, March 5th
4-6pm
via Zoom
Zoom link to be sent to mailing list members closer to the date.
Newcomers are welcome – please email hearatboston@gmail.com
Join us to learn and socialize with peers living with hearing loss.
2021 HLAA Virtual Convention
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We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at HLAA’s Virtual Convention where will learn more about the latest in hearing health, and how to live well with hearing loss. |
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CONVENTION REGISTRANTS
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H.O.P.E – Hearing Our Personal Experiences – April 17, 2021
Boston Chapter Meeting
Saturday April 17, 2021 via Zoom*
4:00 -6:00 pm
H.O.P.E- Hearing Our Personal Experiences
*Link to be sent at later date to Hear@Boston members and friends. Newcomers and visitors please email hearatboston@gmail.com to receive the link.
Join us for a time of reflection, listening and sharing about living with hearing loss, especially during mask-wearing times.
Explore the world of captions, pros and cons, and all the ways to capture it.
All are invited to contribute to conversation, but not obligated.
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,”…
-Emily Dickinson
HLAA Boston Chapter Board
Liz, Sue, Barbara and Carol
All Things Cochlea(r) – A Zoom Panel Presentation About Cochlear Implants
- Guest speakers from all three cochlear implant (CI) companies: Advanced Bionics, Cochlear, and Med-El,
- Dr. Daniel Lee, CI surgeon from Mass Eye and Ear,
- Eva Bero, Audiologist, Dir. of Audiology at Lahey Medical ,
- A panel of CI users to answer your questions.
Boston Organizations Subsidize Clear Masks for Boston Residents
Boston Lyric Opera and Costume Works Inc. have formed a partnership to manufacture and make available clear face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Find more information and get your mask here: https://blo.org/facemasks/Virtual HLAA Chapter Meetings Around the Country
Organizer: Toni Barrient toni@hlaamv.org 949-391-9756 text
Description: Popular Professor, Fan-Gang (UCI Researcher) will present his ongoing research about technologies that help people hear including over the counter devices like AirPods.
You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Nov 10, 2020 11:00 AM Pacific Time, 2:00 pm EST.
Here are more upcoming virtual events (Details below):
- Saturday November 14 at 4pm: HLAA Virtual Meeting hosted by HLAA California Association – “Surviving the Holidays with Hearing Loss?”
- Tuesday November 17 at 8pm: HLAA Veterans Across America – “What’s in your Hearing Rucksack?”
- Wednesday November 18 at 4pm: HLAA Plymouth Chapter – “A Life in Music Lost and Found”
Saturday November 14: 4pm (Eastern Time)
HLAA California State Association virtual meeting
“Surviving the Holidays with Hearing Loss?”
Speaker: Alison Freeman
Join our next virtual meeting to learn some tips and strategies on how to deal with hearing loss during the holidays ahead. Speaker Alison Freeman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who works part-time at California State University at Northridge (CSUN) with both hearing and hard of hearing/deaf/Deaf students. She also has a private practice and is doing teletherapy during the pandemic. She has had a severe hearing loss since early childhood, was orally trained, and is a long-time member of HLAA (she knew Founder Rocky Stone!).
Tuesday November 17: 8pm (Eastern Time)
HLAA Veterans Across America virtual meeting
“What’s in your Hearing Rucksack?”
Speaker: Juliette Sterkens
Most people with hearing loss will say they can hear just fine but that they have difficulty understanding speech, particularly in background noise, watching TV or while attending religious services, a lecture or theater performances even when using the most modern, up-to-date hearing aids. This lecture will go beyond hearing aids and will help you become an informed consumer to get the hearing care and technology from the VA that will work for you.
Juliëtte Sterkens is the HLAA Hearing Loop Advocate and professional advisor to HLAA on Hearing Loop Technology.
Register at [link expired]
Wednesday November 18: 4:00 – 5:30 pm (Eastern Time)
HLAA Plymouth Chapter virtual meeting
“A Life in Music Lost and Found”
Speaker: Betty Hauck
Betty Hauck, who was supposed to perform with the violin and viola for our chapter at the Plymouth Public Library, on March 18, 2020 (just before the pandemic started), will be talking A LIFE IN MUSIC LOST & FOUND: My Journey as a Musician with Hearing Loss. Betty was featured in an NPR story about musicians and hearing loss, which was reprised as a favorite story of 2018.
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/04/17/classical-musicians-hearing-loss
Contact Sandy Spekman (sspekman@gmail.com) to request the link.
HLAA Virtual Meeting Recordings
You can view recordings of past Hearing Loss virtual meetings at:
https://www.hearingloss.org/hearing-help/communities/hlaa-national-virtual-meetings/
Hear @ Boston – Holiday “HAT” Check – December 5, 2020 4:00 pm
Holiday HAT Check – Hearing Assistive Technology.
The holiday season presents us with many challenges in our hard-of-hearing world. Fortunately, there are many tech tools to help us all live with hearing loss. Let’s learn from each other! Let’s share our knowledge!
Please attend, and please bring and share a favorite device that helps you with safety, stress, and relates to hearing loss. Show and tell! It will help us all get through the challenging holiday season.
December 5, 2020 4:00 pm – Virtual VIA Zoom
Please join the hear@boston Zoom Meeting! Please email hearatboston@gmail.com to get the link.
October 16, 2020-Jonathan O’Dell: Why You’re Losing It and Why What You Don’t Know May Hurt You.
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Friday, October 16, 2020, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon, ET |
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Are you struggling with hearing loss, or is a family or friend struggling with hearing loss? Jonathan O’Dell, assistive technology manager and training specialist at Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, discusses cochlear implants, assistive listening devices, movie theater access, Bluetooth streaming, amplified and captioned phones, applicable laws for communication, and making your home accessible.
Brought to the Cary Library in partnership with the Lexington Senior Services. Closed Captioning will be provided by CART.
Please register for this meeting and you will receive the program link in the confirmation and reminder notices – please check your spam folder for the emails and scroll to the bottom for the link. This program will be recorded with permission and we will upload it to our YouTube channel.
Below is the registration link.
When you register, a link to join the meeting will be sent to you.
Contact us at caryprograms@minlib.net with any questions.
Sponsored by the Cary Library Foundation.
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