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Walk Day is back in person.
Join us as we bring attention to hearing health and raise funds to ensure that people with hearing loss receive the resources needed to live better.
On Walk Day, be part of the celebration, connect with walkers, teams, alliances, HLAA Chapters, and corporate partners. Our combined passion for the cause will bring hearing health front and center. Walk with us to help everyone, at all stages of their hearing journey, feel confident and empowered to overcome challenges and support one another.
Register for San Diego Walk4Hearing to raise awareness and funds to support national and local programs. See you on Walk Day!
Walk Day Schedule
9 a.m. Registration/Check-in
10 a.m. Walk Starts
Walk Day is back in person.
Join us as we bring attention to hearing health and raise funds to ensure that people with hearing loss receive the resources needed to live better.
On Walk Day, be part of the celebration, connect with walkers, teams, alliances, HLAA Chapters, and corporate partners. Our combined passion for the cause will bring hearing health front and center. Walk with us to help everyone, at all stages of their hearing journey, feel confident and empowered to overcome challenges and support one another.
Register for New England Walk4Hearing to raise awareness and funds to support national and local programs. See you on Walk Day!
Walk Day Schedule
9:30 a.m. Registration/Check-in
10:30 a.m. Walk Starts
Lise Hamlin, HLAA Public Policy Director will present to the District of Columbia Chapter on HLAA public policy advocacy initiatives.
HLAA actively supports public policy initiatives that:
- Enhance access to communications for people with hearing loss in the workplace, government facilities, & places of public accommodation, including movies, theaters, court rooms, and & transportation facilities;
- Make hearing aids, cochlear implants, other hearing technology & hearing health services accessible & affordable;
- Improve the quality of captioning on TV, theaters, & the internet; ensuring telecommunication access via Relay & Hearing Aid Compatible phones.
Three initiatives that HLAA is currently focusing on are:
- Providing input for the FDA on the consumer perspective regarding Over-the-Counter hearing aids;
- Expanding Medicare to cover hearing aids & hearing health care services;
- Accessibility for people with hearing loss during the pandemic.
Lise will describe these & other policy initiatives, answer questions, & seek views about other ways HLAA can be helpful.
Please contact Russell Misheloff, hladcchapter@gmail.com to RSVP to this event.
Walk Day is back in person.
Join us as we bring attention to hearing health and raise funds to ensure that people with hearing loss receive the resources needed to live better.
On Walk Day, be part of the celebration, connect with walkers, teams, alliances, HLAA Chapters, and corporate partners. Our combined passion for the cause will bring hearing health front and center. Walk with us to help everyone, at all stages of their hearing journey, feel confident and empowered to overcome challenges and support one another.
Register for Kentucky Walk4Hearing to raise awareness and funds to support national and local programs. See you on Walk Day!
Walk Day Schedule
9 a.m. Registration/Check-in
10 a.m. Walk Starts
Walk Day is back in person.
Join us as we bring attention to hearing health and raise funds to ensure that people with hearing loss receive the resources needed to live better.
On Walk Day, be part of the celebration, connect with walkers, teams, alliances, HLAA Chapters, and corporate partners. Our combined passion for the cause will bring hearing health front and center. Walk with us to help everyone, at all stages of their hearing journey, feel confident and empowered to overcome challenges and support one another.
Register for New Jersey Walk4Hearing to raise awareness and funds to support national and local programs. See you on Walk Day!
Walk Day Schedule
10 a.m. Registration/Check-in
11 a.m. Walk Starts
Walk Day is back in person.
Join us as we bring attention to hearing health and raise funds to ensure that people with hearing loss receive the resources needed to live better.
On Walk Day, be part of the celebration, connect with walkers, teams, alliances, HLAA Chapters, and corporate partners. Our combined passion for the cause will bring hearing health front and center. Walk with us to help everyone, at all stages of their hearing journey, feel confident and empowered to overcome challenges and support one another.
Register for North Carolina Walk4Hearing to raise awareness and funds to support national and local programs. See you on Walk Day!
Walk Day Schedule
10 a.m. Registration/Check-in
11 a.m. Walk Starts
The program’s goal is for the audience to learn about the unique accommodations certain hospitals from around this country have for people with hearing loss. Each of our presenters are passionate advocates and will talk about the accommodations their hospitals provide for people with hearing loss.
Date: October 11, 2021
Time: Noon ET, 11 a.m. CT, 10 a.m. MT, 9 a.m. PT
Speakers:
Kevin Irvine, Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant, Individuals with Disabilities, Co-Chair, Rush ADA Task Force, Facilitator, Rush Disabilities Employee Resource Group, Rush University Medical Center
Shawn M. Norris, Coordinator of Interpreting Services, ADA/Section 1557 Coordinator, Flagler Hospital
Carlos Olvera, Manager of Interpreter Services, Rush University Medical Center, Co-Chair, Rush ADA Task Force
Catherine Palmer, Ph.D., Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Director, UPMC Audiology
Kathleen To, System Manager, Linguistic Services, Swedish Medical Center
Moderator:
Elaine McCaffrey, Chair, HLAA Communication Access in Health Care Program
Helpful Hints and Tutorials
- Registration is required for this event. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
- Use a computer. If possible, attend the meeting on a computer rather than via a smartphone or iPad. This will give you the best layout to view the captions as well as other meeting features.
- Captions. HLAA webinars are open or closed captioned. Subtitles will be visible at the bottom of the meeting Zoom screen.
- Check your time zone. This meeting will take place live at Noon ET, 11 a.m. CT, 10 a.m. MT and 9 a.m. PT. You should make note of your time zone so you do not miss the meeting.
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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Walk Day is back in person.
Join us as we bring attention to hearing health and raise funds to ensure that people with hearing loss receive the resources needed to live better.
On Walk Day, be part of the celebration, connect with walkers, teams, alliances, HLAA Chapters, and corporate partners. Our combined passion for the cause will bring hearing health front and center. Walk with us to help everyone, at all stages of their hearing journey, feel confident and empowered to overcome challenges and support one another.
Register for Washington DC Walk4Hearing to raise awareness and funds to support national and local programs. See you on Walk Day!
Walk Day Schedule
9 a.m. Registration/Check-in
10 a.m. Walk Starts
Walk Day is back in person.
Join us as we bring attention to hearing health and raise funds to ensure that people with hearing loss receive the resources needed to live better.
On Walk Day, be part of the celebration, connect with walkers, teams, alliances, HLAA Chapters, and corporate partners. Our combined passion for the cause will bring hearing health front and center. Walk with us to help everyone, at all stages of their hearing journey, feel confident and empowered to overcome challenges and support one another.
Register for Pennsylvania Walk4Hearing to raise awareness and funds to support national and local programs. See you on Walk Day!
Walk Day Schedule
9:30 a.m. Registration/Check-in
10:30 a.m. Walk Starts
When: Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Time: 2-2:30 p.m. (ET) with 20 minutes for product demo and 10 minutes for Q&A.
CaptionMate is a free captioning app for individuals with hearing loss that is available on iOS, Android and the Web. The cost of captioning each Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone (IP CTS) call is funded through a federal program, and the cost of the calls are paid for by contributions from other telecommunications users to the Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) fund administered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Come and learn how to increase the power and accuracy of call captioning with CaptionMate’s newest feature: Custom Words.
We’re excited to bring you the latest in call captioning technology! If you have certain words like your name, your city, or specialized words for your occupation that captions often get wrong, now you can easily enter these words into our Custom Words feature and see them corrected in your very next call!
Jon Gray will demonstrate CaptionMate’s app, and explain how this latest feature makes captioning your calls even easier and more accurate. He’ll cover how CaptionMate is easy to use in an office environment or at home, or with a Zoom call or any other webinar. He’ll go over how CaptionMate leverages ASR to provide a speedy and accurate captioning solution, and how to do things like capture both sides of the conversation, change the language on the fly, modify your themes and color settings, how the app can be used on your own phone (iOS, Android and landline), and how to share the transcriptions with the remote party.
Note: Product showcases are for advertising purposes only. HLAA does not endorse products or services featured and the presentation is paid for by the advertiser.
Registration is required for this event. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Helpful Hints and Tutorials
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- Zoom concerns have been addressed and procedures will be modified as Zoom continues to update their software. The main security issue was with open meetings. When you register, it creates a unique link for a password protected session.
- Use a computer. If possible, attend the meeting 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.
- Zoom concerns have been addressed and procedures will be modified as Zoom continues to update their software. The main security issue was with open meetings. When you register, it creates a unique link for a password protected session.
- Captions. HLAA Webinars are open or closed captioned. Subtitles will be visible at the bottom of the meeting zoom screen.
- Check 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.
- Questions? Feel free to email us at webinars@hearingloss.
org.m. PT. If you are in a different time zone, please adjust the time so you do not miss the meeting.
NOTE: HLAA does not offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for participation in our webinars.
Questions? Feel free to email us at webinars@hearingloss.org.
If companies are interested in HLAA Webinar Product Showcases, email Jeryl Parade at jeryl.parade@theygsgroup.com.