HLAA 2024 Convention Educational Workshops

We are excited to offer a rich variety of interesting educational workshops at the HLAA 2024 Convention in Phoenix. Start planning your schedule now!

Thursday, June 27

9:30-10:45 a.m.

Advocacy at the State Level

Cynthia Stewart

Building Community Through Music Appreciation Among Cochlear Implant Users

Julianne Papadopoulos
Chrysa Kovach

Embracing Auracast: A Catalyst for Expanding Hearing Accessibility

Thomas Kaufmann

1:30-2:45 p.m.

Practicing Communication Strategies- Through Role Playing

Kimberly Parker

Why is it so Hard to Treat Sensorineural Hearing Loss?

Tian Wang
Shari Eberts
Steve Sterry

Wireless Inclusion for All: Finding Mobile Devices and Features that Work for You

TBA

Cochlear Implant Panel Discussion

TBA

3:00-4:15 p.m.

Why Best Practices Matter MORE than the Best Hearing Aids

Clifford R. Olson

Advocacy to Meet the Challenge of Air Travel

Brian Meyer

A Model for Provision of No-Cost Hearing Healthcare to Adults with Limited Income

Michele Michaels,
Amy Wheeler,
Aparna Rao,
Kate Helms-Tillery

Friday, June 28

1-2:15 p.m.

Interacting with Google Maps. A Two-Way Street?

Juliëtte Sterkens
Wynne Whymann

Your Legal Readiness: Estate Planning

William Kelley, Esq

The Emotional Side of Hearing Loss

Research Symposium Panelists

Keeping up with Progress and Deployment of Auracast™ Broadcast Audio – Latest Updates from the Market

Sam Burkinshaw
Chuck Sabin

2:30-3:45 p.m.

Finding Your Hearing Loss Community on Instagram

Kimberly Erskine

Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants Can Improve Your Quality of Life: What Exactly Does that Mean and How do we Know it’s True?

Carren J. Stika, Ph.D. 

Growing up with Hearing Loss and Raising Kids with Hearing Loss

Janna Rovniak

4-5:15 p.m.

Sound Advice: Loop People|Loop Places, a Peer-led Strategy to Promote Hearing Loops Near You!

Ginevra Ralph

Hearing Aid Technology: 2024 and Beyond

Bridget Dobyan
Tom Powers

Parents of Children with Hearing Loss Panel Discussion

Michelle Hu
Steve Wolfert
Jennie Antolnakis

Saturday, June 29

10:30-11:45 a.m.

HLAA’s Advocacy ABCs: Advocating Before Congress and the Alphabet Soup of Federal Agencies”

Brian Meyers

Assistive Technology and Communication Access in the Digital Age

Jason Taylor 

Let’s Dance in Phoenix!

Debbie Mohney
Jim Diaz

1:30-2:45 p.m.

Cybersecurity and Hearing Loss, Part II

Andy Chandler

Aging with Dignity: Assistance from Frank Sinatra, and Eleanor Roosevelt

Michael Harvey

Employment Roundtable

David Baldridge, Ph.D.
Lisa Yuan

3-4:15 p.m.

Becoming Hearing Empowered

Katherine Rybak

The Emotional Side of Hearing Loss within the Hispanic Community

Roxana Rotundo
Holly Cohen

Amplify Your Audiology Appointment 2.0

Tina Childress