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.
Shari Eberts, hearing loss advocate and HLAA National board member, was interviewed by NPR’s Peter O’Dowd on Here and Now about Zoom and the lack of captioning on their free accounts. It is well worth a listen and here’s a link to the podcast and transcript:
Registration is now open for the ALDA/HlAA accessible tour at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Saturday November 21,2020. Please join us for the first of an ongoing schedule of virtual MFA tours via Zoom with Karen Moss as our guide . Our first event is based on the topic “Gatherings Over Time”. This time of year some people are planning their holiday celebrations and such gatherings have been pared back or cancelled altogether during the Covid pandemic . Let us explore various art images in the context of “Gatherings Over Time” as festive, upbeat and enjoyable.
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: 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/
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.
| This is a virtual meeting presented by Jonathan O’Dell about our hearing: Why You’re Losing It and Why What You Don’t Know May Hurt You.
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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Join CHC September 30th for “Health Care, Hearing Loss and Communication Challenges: Taking Charge in 2020 and Beyond” – a dynamic discussion about our changing health care system and how to navigate it with a hearing loss. We will include perspective and guidance from patients and a physician who uses two cochlear implants.
Learn insider tips and strategies to access effective communication during your virtual and in-person appointments, including what to say and do when things don’t go well or as planned. This program will cover a range of accessibility tools, technology and smartphone apps and will detail real-world scenarios you can use in different situations to optimize your health care experience. Discussion followed by Q&A.
Real-time captioning and ASL interpreter provided.
For more information, visit <https://chchearing.org/community/events/health-care-hearing-loss-covid-communication-access-webinar/>.
Betty Hauck writes in hearatboston@googlegroups.com:
A few items of interest:
ADA Anniversary
Jonathan Taylor, head of New York City HLAA chapter, sent this link to a YouTube video of their Sept. 1 meeting celebrating the anniversary of the landmark legislation establishing the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Jonathan writes: “The September 1 chapter meeting was a celebration of the ADA, with introductory remarks by long-time chapter board member, Anne Pope, about the history of the ADA and HLAA’s role in its enactment. We were honored to have JoAnne Simon as our main speaker. Ms. Simon is a member of the NY State Assembly for the 52nd District in Brooklyn and a disability rights attorney. She is a graduate of Iona College, holds a Master’s degree in Education of the Deaf from Gallaudet University, and a law degree from Fordham University School of Law, which she earned while working full time.”
You can view a captioned recording at the You Tube link https://youtu.be/vdWUMPU4yUg
The Best Diet for Your Ears
There is a recent article in Consumer Reports about how diet is connected to hearing health. Several recent studies show that a diet that is good for your heart, like the Mediterranean Diet which emphasizes plant-based food, is also good for your hearing. Here is an excerpt from the article:
“I tell all my patients with hearing loss to follow a heart-healthy diet,” Dr. Woodson says. “If it’s good for your heart, it’s going to be good for your ears, as well.”
Heart-healthy eating patterns, including the three approaches used in Curhan’s studies, are mostly centered on lots of high-quality plant-based foods and low amounts of animal-based foods, refined grains, added sugars, and unhealthy fats. To make it easy, Curhan recommends at each meal filling half your plate with fruits and veggies (but limiting starchy ones, like potatoes). The other half should be made up of whole grains and plant-based protein, such as tofu, lentils, or nuts most days, with fish and modest amounts of lean meat, and poultry less often. Unsaturated oils such as olive or vegetable oils can also be used.”
HLAA Boston Chapter Meeting, September 26, 2020
Don’t forget the first Boston Chapter meeting of the season, Saturday the 26th, at 4 PM via Google Meet, which is captioned.
A chance to meet and greet and find out what’s new with the Boston Chapter. You will be receiving a link soon via Email.
Technical questions about using Google Meet? Andrea Kaneb is happy to help: ajkaneb@gmail.com.
Be well, stay safe.
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