Hearing Loss Association of North Carolina Home

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Web Name: Hearing Loss Association of North Carolina Home

WebSite: http://www.nchearingloss.org

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HLA-NC is a state association of Hearing Loss Association of America, and it's focus is on state-wide advocacy and cooperation. All HLA-NC meetings are open to anyone interested in hearing loss. If you'd like to attend and get involved in promoting the interests of people with hearing loss, please email Steve Barber at steve.barber@earthlink.net. You're also invited to attend local chapter meetings where you will meet others sharing information about hearing loss and working on a local level to support our interests. See Local Chapters for more information. HLAA2020 Convention in New Orleans – CANCELLED, but see More Informationfor a unique online experience in place of HLAA2020. Sorry New Orleans, We'll be back! Hearing Loss Glossary: Check out HLA-NC's Hearing Loss Glossary. It's a work in progress, but if you want, you can help by submitting terms or definitions. If the glossary doesn't pop-up on the left of your screen, then you may have to disable your pop-up blocker (try selecting the link while holding down the Cntl key). If that doesn't work try this alternate link to glossary. These web pages provide news, information and paid advertisements for things related to hearing loss. None of these should be considered as product, program or service endorsements by Hearing Loss Association of America, Hearing Loss Association of North Carolina or the local chapters in North Carolina. These web pages have been tested to work correctly on recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and on Netscape 4.7 and later. The pages also work under limited testing on the latest Mac OS. You must have Javascript enabled, and for two pages (People and the Glossary pages under Projects), you must allow popup windows. If you use a popup blocker, consult your instructions on how to authorize those pages to open their popup windows. If you have any questions, problems or recommendations for these web pages, please email Steve Barber. NC Walk4Hearing News Release Here's a link to the NC Walk4Hearing News Release for the 2020 NC HLAA Walk4Hearing scheduled for October 10th. Please feel free to distribute the link or a printed copy to your ENT, Audiologist, Hearing Aid Dealer or local news sources in North Carolinal NC Walk4Hearing Q&A Steve Latus, of HLAA Wake Chapter created this great list of questions and answers about the 2020 HLAA NC Walk4Hearing. It provides answers for Why We Walk? ... What are the Benefits of the Walk4Hearing ... What has HLAA Wake Chapter Done with Donations to their Team? ... and more. Webinar Patricial Johnson, AuD, Assistant Clinical Professor, UNC School of Medicine, Allied Health Sciences, Speech & Hearing Sciences, was to be Wake Chapter's March presenter. That was posponed, but she has offered to share a great Webinar covering an introduction to hearing loss, using masks and getting health care during this pandemic. See her presentation, HERE. Wake Chapter Scholarships The chapter established a scholarship program to support a college-bound Wake County Public School System senior with a hearing loss. The selection committee determined that two of this year’s applicants deserved to receive scholarships.Taylor Nicol of Willow Spring and Tessa Sandefur of Raleigh are the first recipients of Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Wake Chapter college scholarships. Nicol and Sandefur will graduate in June, Nicol from Athens Drive High School and Sandefur from Needham B. Broughton High School.For more information, click here. Hear Bird Calls If you've got new hearing aids or CIs, you may want to see how well you can hear different bird calls. This link can let you select 50 different birds and hear what they sound like. Note: If your devices can stream via Bluetooth, FM or telecoils, it might sound better. Wake Chapter Member VideoSteve Latus is the focus of a video, "Taking Back My Life After Sudden Hearing Loss". Steve is a board member of HLAA Wake Chapter. You can see the video, HERE. New Greensboro HLAA Chapter Efforts are underway to start a new Hearing Loss Association of America Local Chapter in Greensboro. Please email Katie Franklin, NC DSDHH, Hard of Hearing Specialist at the Greensboro Regional Resource Center, if you are interested. For more information about the forming Greensboro Chapter, please see the Greensboro Chapter Page Hair Cell Regeneration: Roy Roth, one of HLAA Wake Chapter members, is hoping to identify others in North Carolina that are interested in participating in a possible trial of hair cell regeneration.  A firm in Mass. has completed safety trials and may soon be starting efficacy trials.  If you are interested in helping Roy convince them to do one of the trials in NC, please contact Roy at  rroth@nc.rr.com Starting Out in Hearing Loss?People with a lot of experience in hearing loss are often asked for advice by people who are new to hearing loss. See this List of Suggestions that provided one answer to that question. New Loops in the TriangleThere are two new loops recently installed by professional installers in the Raleigh area. If you enjoy theatre, or museums, then check these out. And be sure to let them know how much you appreciate their providing an audio loop, when you do visit.Raleigh Little Theatre's Sutton Theatre installed a loop last Summer. HLAA Wake Chapter held one of our program meetings in the theatre to celebrate the new loop. Click Here to see an article about the RLT loop and the Wake Chapter Celebration event at the theatre.The NC Museum of Art now has a professionally installed loop in the SECU auditorium. You can use their loop to hear lectures or movies better. Spectacular Video: If you've ever wanted to really understand how we hear you won't want to miss this video "tour" that is perhaps the best I've ever seen. Take time to watch it all; it's amazing. ALD Locator Web Site: Here's a link to a web site that maps facilities with assistive hearing technology: http://www.aldlocator.com/. If you know of any site that is not shown on the map that provides hearing assistance technology, you can fill in an on-line form at that site to have them add it to their map. State of NC Job Opportunities: You can search the State of NC Office of State Personnel job listings at the NC Gov Jobs Web site for available jobs. There are often jobs available that require skills or experience related to hearing loss or deafness. Enter any term such as "hearing loss", "deaf", "assistive", or "interpreter" into the search field at the site to identify jobs that you might be interested in and qualified for. The HLA-NC Web Site Hits New Highs, AGAIN! The chart below shows for annual results for visits and unique visitors. As you can see, we welcomed almost a quarter million visits, of whom over 200,000 were unique visitors.

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