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Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 6:30 P.M.
LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY – SOUTHWEST
Community Room
9725 Dixie Highway
Louisville, Kentucky 40272
info@hearinglosskentucky.org
www.hearinglosskentucky.org

Hotels, restaurants, theaters, grocery stores, banks, museums, libraries, zoos, amusement parks, schools, senior citizen centers, homeless shelters, funeral parlors and health spas are a few examples of places of public accommodations. Learn about the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title III. Title III provides for people who are deaf or hard of hearing to have equal access to public accommodations.  We will explore how to have equal access if you are a person who is deaf or hard of hearing and when places of public accommodations need to provide auxiliary aids and services to ensure effective communication with people with hearing loss. 

Leslie Jones is a senior attorney with KY Protection & Advocacy. P&A is the designated agency that protects and promotes the rights of Kentuckians with disabilities. Ms. Jones served as Legal and Education Counsel for the Legislative Ethics Commission, Enforcement Branch Manager with the Human Rights Commission, trial attorney for the Department of Public Advocacy, and as attorney/supervisor for the Children/Youth Team with P&A. She received degrees from University of Louisville, University of Cincinnati, and the Brandeis School of Law.

One of Ms. Jones’ projects is with the Senior Study Group. This group is a cooperative effort between state agencies, nonprofits and citizens to explore the needs of the aging deaf or hard of hearing population, and to identify and develop solutions.

The meeting is realtime captioned by McLendon-Kogut Reporting Service. The Community Room is equipped with a hearing loop for those with telecoils in their hearing aid and/or cochlear implant.

Perry Hanavan, Au.D. will provide a summary of each speaker’s presentation during Listening in Noise, the topic of the HLAA2018 Research Symposium. HLAA is grateful to Dr. Hanavan for not only suggesting this important topic, but also working to line up a world-class list of presenters that included:

• Andrew J. Oxenham, Ph.D., professor in the Departments of Psychology and Otolaryngology, University of Minnesota and Scientific Co-director of the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science (CATSS)

• Evelyn Davies-Venn, Ph.D., Au.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota

• Norman Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, St. Olaf College

• DeLiang Wang, Ph.D., Professor of the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University

• Nima Mesga
  rani, Ph.D., Associate Porfessor of the Neural Acoustic Processing Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Neurobiology and Behavior Program, Columbia Univerisity

Ravi N. Samy, M.D. successfully implanted a cochlear implant (CI) in the right ear and an auditory brainstem implant (ABI) in the left ear of a patient named Jessica, making her one of the few patients in the country to have both. The ABI was implanted with the CochlearTM Nucleus® 7, the first made-for-iPhone sound processor approved by the Food and Drug Administration. With the combination of the ABI and the Nucleus 7 Sound Processor, Jessica can stream phone calls, video, music and entertainment.

Tune in to learn more about Jessica’s unique case and as well as the CI/ABI program at the University of Cincinnati/ Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

7th Annual Hearing Tech Expo
Hosted by the HLAA-Sarasota/Manatee Chapter

Saturday, October 27 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 

Manatee Technical College
6301 State Road 70
Bradenton, FL 34203