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WEBINAR—OTC 101: Ask the Experts Series
Are Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids For You?

November 1, 2023 @ 12:33 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
Free

Please take HLAA’s survey to help us gauge the public’s experience of over-the-counter hearing aids!
 

When: Thursday, November 1, 2023
Time: 2–3 p.m. ET

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids for sale directly to consumers over 18 with mild to moderate hearing loss beginning in October 2022. These assistive devices are intended to provide faster and easier options to treat more people who need support with their hearing. HLAA is launching its OTC 101: Ask the Experts Webinar Series to provide people with information about this exciting new class of products. The first event on Nov. 1 features a panel of experts and audiologists from the FDA who will share information and take questions from the audience. HLAA Executive Director Barbara Kelley will moderate the discussion. 

You may send your questions about over-the-counter hearing aids in advance using the form below.

All HLAA webinars are free and live captioned.

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Moderator: 

Barbara KelleyHLAA Executive Director Barbara Kelley will moderate the panel. A well-known leader in hearing health, she has been with HLAA for more than 35 years. Kelley has led HLAA’s active role pushing forward OTC hearing aid legislation and other initiatives to increase access, break down stigma and eliminate barriers to hearing loss care and treatment.

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Presenters: 

Victoria GarciaVictoria Garcia, an engineer who leads a team of 20 at NASA and is responsible for systems integration for the upcoming manned missions to the Moon; she was diagnosed with profound hearing loss at birth and now wears a cochlear implant (CI).

Sheila XuSheila Xu, who is deaf, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is now working on a combined graduate degree at the Harvard Kennedy School/Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She learned ASL in college, now wears a cochlear implant (CI) and dreams of starting a business that helps people with hearing loss and other disabilities.

Doctor K Renee HortonK. Renee Horton, Ph.D. is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a B.S. in electrical engineering and a minor in math in 2002; and a Ph.D. in material science with a concentration in physics, becoming the first African American to graduate from the University of Alabama in 2011 in this area. She works for NASA, at first as a student from 2009 to 2011, and then started her career as a mechanical test engineer in 2012.

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The HLAA OTC 101 – Ask the Experts Webinar Series is funded by a grant from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Foundation in support of its mission to strategically support programs that improve the lives of seniors and people with disabilities.
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NOTE: HLAA does not offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for participation in our webinars.

Questions? Feel free to email us at webinars@hearingloss.org.


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