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SUMMARY:HLAA National Support Group for Parents of Children with Hearing Loss
DESCRIPTION:HLAA National Support Group for Parents and Caregivers of Children with Hearing Loss \nREGISTER NOW \nHear Together is HLAA’s National Support Group for Parents and Caregivers of Children with Hearing Loss. Led by a speech-language pathologist and an audiologist\, this virtual national parents’ support group is designed to connect families and provide resources and support. The group meets regularly on the third Wednesday of the month from 8-9 pm (ET) \n** Note – This meeting is designed for Parents and Caregivers only. \n\n\nZoom. The meeting will be held on Zoom. After registering\, the Zoom meeting link will be emailed to you. Please save your email and make sure to check your spam or junk folder if you have not received the meeting link.\nUse a computer. If possible\, attend the webinar on a computer rather than via a smart phone or iPad. This will give you the best layout to view the captions\, as well as other meeting features.\nInstall or update Zoom. Make sure you have Zoom installed.\n\nBasic Zoom overview for Windows and MacOS\n\n\nCaptions. These meetings are free with live captions available.\nCheck your time zone. This meeting will take place live at 8 p.m. ET\, 7 p.m. CT\, 6 p.m. MT and 5 p.m. PT. If you are in a different time zone\, please adjust the time so you do not miss the meeting.\n\n  \nQuestions? Feel free to email us at webinars@hearingloss.org.
URL:https://www.hearingloss.org/event/hlaa-national-support-group-for-parents-of-children-with-hearing-loss-5/
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SUMMARY:Veterans Across America Virtual Chapter Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Title: Veterans Across America Virtual Chapter Meeting\nDate/Time: Monthly Every 3rd Tuesday\, 8 – 9 p.m. ET\n\nRegister Today\n\nDescription: Meet with veterans from across the county to talk about issues related to veterans and hearing loss. Caretakers and family members of veterans are welcome to attend.\n\nThe mission of the HLAA Veterans Across America Virtual Chapter is to provide education\, be an advocate for veterans with hearing loss\, and to provide a support system to help them to return and adjust to civilian life.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHelpful tips\n\nCaptions. Meetings are open or closed captioned. Subtitles will be visible at the bottom of the meeting zoom screen.\nCheck your time zone. This meeting will take place live at 8 p.m. ET\, 7 p.m. CT\, 6 p.m. MT\, and 5 p.m. PT. If you are in a different time zone\, please adjust the time so you do not miss the meeting.\nQuestions? Feel free to email us at chapters@hearingloss.org. If you are in a different time zone\, please adjust the time so you do not miss the meeting.
URL:https://www.hearingloss.org/event/veterans-across-america-virtual-chapter-meeting-2/2026-04-21/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR—Hearing Loss at Work Series - Workplace Hearing Loss Diversity\, Identity and Disclosure 
DESCRIPTION:Workplace Hearing Loss Diversity\, Identity and Disclosure \nREGISTER NOW \nProfessor David C. Baldridge will discuss his research on relationships between hearing loss characteristics such as severity\, variability and onset age\, on how we identify and are seen by others at work. He will then discuss the impact of our hearing identities on disclosure\, self-advocacy\, and hearing assistive technology use. Panelists from HLAA’s Task Force for Accessible\, Inclusive Employment will share their own hearing identities\, disclosure\, self-advocacy and hearing assistive technology use. \nSee panelist information below. This complimentary online event is open to the public\, live captioned and recorded. The recording will be available on our website after the webinar. Register at the orange link above today! NOTE: Live attendance for HLAA webinars is capped at 500 participants. \n\n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n \nDavid Baldridge\nDr. David C. Baldridge is a deafened\, cochlear implant user with childhood onset hearing loss. Prior to joining the board of HLAA\, Dr. Baldridge\, was the chair of HLAA’s Employment Taskforce. He is a Toomey and Newcomb Faculty Fellow recipient\, and Professor of Management at Oregon State University. David earned his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Connecticut\, Storrs. His MBA in Finance and BGS with concentrations in Economics\, English\, and Philosophy are from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His teaching areas include leadership and negotiation. His research interests include diversity\, equity\, and inclusion–primarily accommodation\, inclusion\, and career success for deaf and hard of hearing persons and people with other disabilities. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Review\, Strategic Management Journal\, Journal of Management\, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology\, Journal of International Business Studies\, Human Resource Management Review\, Journal of Business Communication\, and other leading management publications. He serves on the editorial boards for Human Relations\, International Journal of Human Resource Management and Managerial Psychology. \n\n\n\n \nLisa Yuan\nLisa Yaun has been actively involved with HLAA for 20 years\, serving in leadership roles with the Los Angeles\, Washington\, D.C.\, and Montgomery County\, Maryland chapters. In 2022\, she joined the HLAA Task Force for Accessible\, Inclusive Employment. Lisa has a master’s degree in Assistive Technology & Human Services and completed HLAA’s Network of Consumer Hearing Assistive Technology Trainers (NCHATT) program and Gallaudet University’s Peer Mentoring program for people with hearing loss. Since July 2025\, she has worked at Mayo Clinic as a senior communications specialist\, after nearly eight years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in public health communications roles. Prior to NIH\, she spent 25 years in entertainment advertising as a production artist in Los Angeles. She has had hearing loss since age 20 and uses a cochlear implant and hearing aid. \n\n\n \nTori Carapelho\nTori Carapelho is the founder of Hear 4 Hope\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individuals living with hearing loss. She serves on the HLAA Employment Task Force\, is involved in building and supporting HLAA community efforts in Hawaii and serves on the HLAA–Los Angeles Steering Committee. Tori experienced sudden hearing loss in 2021 and is a unilateral cochlear implant user. She brings both lived experience and advocacy to her work\, with a focus on expanding access\, opportunity\, and inclusion for people with hearing loss. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHelpful Tips\n\nZoom. The webinar will be held on Zoom. After registering\, the Zoom meeting link will be emailed to you. Please save your email and make sure to check your spam or junk folder if you have not received the meeting link.\nUse a computer. If possible\, attend the webinar on a computer rather than via a smart phone or iPad. This will give you the best layout to view the captions\, as well as other meeting features.\nInstall or update Zoom. Make sure you have Zoom installed.\n\nBasic Zoom overview for Windows and MacOS\n\n\nCaptions. All HLAA webinars are free with live captions available.\nCheck your time zone. This meeting will take place live at 2 p.m. ET\, 1 p.m. CT\, 12 p.m. MT and 11 a.m. PT. If you are in a different time zone\, please adjust the time so you do not miss the meeting.\n\nNOTE: HLAA does not offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for participation in our webinars. \nQuestions? Feel free to email us at webinars@hearingloss.org.
URL:https://www.hearingloss.org/event/webinar-hearing-loss-at-work-series-workplace-hearing-loss-diversity-identity-and-disclosure/
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