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We invite veterans with hearing loss to attend the next Veterans Across America Virtual Chapter Meeting (VAAVC) online using Zoom.
Date: March 15, 2022
Time: 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, 5 p.m. PT
This will be an open meeting. We look forward to seeing you online.
The HLAA Veterans Across America Virtual Chapter is sponsored exclusively by Starkey.
AAA 2022+HearTECH Expo
March 30–April 2, 2022
St. Louis, Missouri
https://www.audiology.org/education-and-events/aaa-annual-conference/
Cochlear Implant (CI) users know that surgery and device fitting are just the first steps in their hearing journey. But are the next steps sometimes unclear or inconsistent? What is missing from the follow up process? Can follow-up services be technology-centered and person-centered? What would you like to see?
Are you an adult CI user? Join the CIICA CONVERSATION, “Adult services After CI,” and discuss your challenges and recommendations about post-implant services. Our small group one hour conversation will be facilitated by Kris English, HLAA Director of Public Policy Lise Hamlin and Ali Marinelli.
This conversation will advance CIICA’s goal to close the gaps in lifelong CI support and will have live captioning. Numbers strictly limited.
When: Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Time: Noon-1 p.m. (ET)
In the United States, nearly 98% of newborns are screened for hearing loss. While the newborn hearing screening program is aimed at identifying hearing loss at the time of birth, sometimes the change in hearing status happens later. In fact, incidence of permanent hearing loss doubles between birth and school age. Too often young children with postnatal hearing loss fall through the cracks. They go unidentified for months or years — leading to speech, language and other developmental delays and social, emotional and academic struggles. The pediatric Late Onset Hearing Loss Awareness Campaign aims to shine a spotlight on a segment of children who are at risk of falling through the cracks. By increasing community awareness of the true prevalence, risk factors and common signs of childhood hearing loss, families can be encouraged to seek a pediatric hearing evaluation and can be more promptly connected to services and supports if hearing loss is confirmed.
Presenters:
Valerie James Abbott is an award-winning author, a parent-champion for early hearing detection and intervention and co-founder of Late Onset Hearing Loss Awareness Week. She serves as a 1-3-6 family educator at the Center for Family Involvement at the Partnership for People with Disabilities at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), supporting families of children recently identified with hearing loss and leading projects aimed at reducing loss to follow up for the Virginia Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program. Her debut children’s book, Padapillo, was published in May 2021. The book is based on the true story of how her family discovered and came to understand her youngest child’s late onset hearing loss.
Christine Eubanks, Ph.D., is the clinical audiologist at the Longwood Speech, Hearing and Learning Center at Longwood University, where she also teaches the undergraduate audiology course. Dr. Eubanks serves as the audiology faculty member for the Virginia State Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program and is an active member and former chair of the Virginia EHDI Program’s Advisory Committee. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Memphis, her master’s degree from Columbia University and her bachelor’s degree from Boston University.
Justin Osmond is CEO and founder of the Olive Osmond Hearing Fund, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with hearing loss by improving access to hearing technology. He has traveled across the U.S. and throughout the world, bringing hope and help to people to hearing loss in historically underserved communities and undeveloped countries. His memoir, Hearing with My Heart, describes his personal experiences as a young child with profound hearing loss and the root of his motivation to help others dream big. In 2021, Justin launched the Late Onset Hearing Loss Awareness Campaign to shine a spotlight on a segment of children who are at risk of language and developmental delays.
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.
- Update Zoom. Make sure to upgrade to the latest version of Zoom.
- 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, Noon 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.
We invite veterans with hearing loss to attend the next Veterans Across America Virtual Chapter Meeting (VAAVC) online using Zoom.
Time: 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT, 5 p.m. PT
This will be an open meeting. We look forward to seeing you online.
The HLAA Veterans Across America Virtual Chapter is sponsored exclusively by Starkey.
Cochlear Center Research Day will be in person at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Wolfe Street building. We will also offer a virtual option for faculty remarks and the keynote address. Registration is required for both the in-person and virtual options.
When: Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Time: 2-2:30 p.m. (ET) with 20 minutes for product demo and 10 minutes for Q&A.
Nagish (which means ’Accessible’ in Hebrew) makes phone calls more accessible.
Nagish is a mobile app available for iOS and Android devices. It looks and feels just like your existing phone. The only difference is that with Nagish you can choose to read your calls or hear them while seeing captions on your screen. Nagish empowers you to use your own voice or your device’s keyboard to speak.
The app is 100% private, over 90% accurate and has no latency.
Some key features include:
- Keep your existing phone number to place and receive captioned calls.
- Add words (such as names) to a personal dictionary — we will never get them wrong.
- Automatically adapting our algorithms depending on the context of your call.
- Works with Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRS).
- Use the keyboard, or your own voice to speak.
- Turn up the volume using your device’s loudspeaker.
- End-to-end encrypted. Only you have access to your calls.
Nagish is free, and is available for download here.
Tune in to this product showcase to learn how you can use Nagish to make your calls more accessible, and have a Q&A session with the company’s founder and CEO.
Presenter:
Tomer Aharoni grew up in Israel and moved to New York in 2014 to pursue a degree in Computer Science at Columbia University. After graduating magna cum laude and spending a year researching Natural Language Processing, Aharoni joined Bloomberg as a software engineer. As someone who was always passionate about developing tech for the greater good, Aharoni co-founded Nagish with a single mission in mind —make telecommunication more accessible to all. Today, Aharoni acts as the CEO of Nagish, working to make life more accessible to people with hearing loss.
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.
When: Thursday, May 12, 2022
Time: 3-4 p.m. (ET)
The federal government offers people of all backgrounds, including people with disabilities, opportunities to have a meaningful career in public service. In this webinar, you’ll learn about pathways to federal service for people with disabilities, strategies for effectively navigating the federal workplace and resources from the Office of Disability Employment Policy.
Presenters:
Scott Michael Robertson, Ph.D., Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
Scott Michael Robertson, Ph.D., is an autistic adult and a senior policy advisor in the Office of Disability Employment Policy in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). He spearheads ODEP’s $3.8 million Partnership on Inclusive Apprenticeship (PIA) in his role as the federal project manager. Dr. Robertson also advances work to propel support for neurodiversity in workplaces and improve access to gainful employment and career paths for job seekers on the autism spectrum. He serves as a key subject matter expert for ODEP’s $2.1 million project on Research Support Services for Employment of Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum.
Before joining ODEP, Dr. Robertson served as a Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Fellow in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. He also served as the founding vice president of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), a national nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. Dr. Robertson earned his Ph.D. in information sciences and technology at Penn State University. In 2021, DOL awarded him and his colleagues a Secretary of Labor’s Exceptional Achievement Award for work to help foster inclusive apprenticeships. The Viscardi Center in New York awarded him a Henry Viscardi Achievement Award for exemplary global leaders who drive work to empower people with disabilities. He is also an inductee of the national Susan M. Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame and a recipient of a Jay S. Drotman Award from the American Public Health Association for emerging leaders in health policy and practices.
David Rice, Acting Branch Manager, Special Emphasis Programs, National Institutes of Health, Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
David Rice graduated in 2009 from Catholic University of America with a degree in psychology, with a focus on social stigmas of people with Intellectual Disabilities. He has been at National Institutes of Health (NIH) since October 2009., where he is currently serving as the acting branch director for the Special Emphasis Programs. Being deaf since the age of 4, he has a strong interest in Disability Community.
His work within the disability community started as a sophomore in high school, where he worked summer camps for children with intellectual and physical disabilities. While in college he was part of the first American Sign Language (ASL) program, where students live a dorm in which hearing and deaf students shared their desire to learn ASL. He was also active in outreach for people with disabilities at Catholic University.
David served as President of DIG (Deaf in Government) from 2014 to 2018. DIG empowers deaf and federal employees with hearing loss to overcome communication barriers, resolve accessibility issues and promote a fully inclusive work environment through networking and fostering professional growth. Some of David’s accomplishments are initiating a workforce complaint program, developing a training program that fosters promotion in the federal government, establishing partnerships with different organizations and creating networking and mentoring opportunities.
David has also changed the cultural stigma placed on people with disabilities by changing the NIH mission statement. He led the DeafNIH Employee Resource Group at NIH for those who are people with hearing loss, by working closely with the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). David was also a part of Section 508 Advisory group whose mission is to make the internet a fully accessible environment; with his focus being on closed captions. In his spare time, David enjoys baseball and all things Pittsburgh.
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.
- Update Zoom. Make sure to upgrade to the latest version of Zoom.
- 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 3 p.m. ET, 2 p.m. CT, 1 p.m. MT and Noon 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. 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.
Reunite with Walk4Hearing!
Walk4Hearing is the only nationwide walk event spotlighting hearing health and empowering people to live well with hearing loss. This spring, you can gather with your team and our community for a fun and inspiring Walk Day. Join us as we raise awareness and funds for hearing health in cities across the country.
Participants of all ages gather with their families, friends and hearing care professionals to share experiences and learn about hearing technologies and services. Together, let’s step up for hearing health!
Walk Day Schedule (ET)
11 a.m. Registration Starts
Noon Stage Presentation
12:15 p.m. Walk Starts – 5K/3.1 miles