Our Rights, Responsibilities, and Resources! Hard of Hearing People; a group likely to experience communication challenges. | | Round table discussions about our experiences; our rights, responsibilities, and resources. |
Become educated and advocate on your own behalf as well as for others that you may never meet. Check out these important links: Education:Are you being compared, judged, and graded againstyour hearing peers. Do you know that you can ask for accommodations to help you hear and understand better? Do you know what those accommodations are? Click here: ADAeducation Entertainment: We all love to be entertained whether it's at the movies, theatres, or even TV's. Did you know that accommodations are already in place for you and there's more to come. What are your experiences? Click here: ADApublic Emergencies. We are challenged daily in our ability to hear and understand under normal circumstances, what have your experiences been in an emergency type situation or a hospital stay, etc. What are your rights, and what are your responsibilities? Click here: ADArequirements Employment: In our jobs we can be challenged to hear and understand on the telephone, in meetings, or even conversations during lunches. Have you been overlooked for promotions, etc. How have you coped so far, do you know what your rights are? Click here: ADAemployment Plus:http://www.hearingloss.org/content/workplace Equal Access in Courts: From traffic school, to court dates, or jury duty. Although required by law courts must accommodate our hearing needs, but what have our true experiences been. Do you know your rights, do you know what accommodations you can ask for? Click here: ADAcourts Equipment: Come and learn the various listening systems and devices for accommodating our various hearing needs. Example; the difference between the FM, Infrared and loop systems. Captioning; open and closed. Alerting device and more. | | Under Herb's Hat Hearing Assistive Technology. Co-chairman Read Herb's special article: Click here: What's Up, Doc? |
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Hearing Loss Association of California www.hearinglossca.org 2012 State Conference http://hearinglossca.org/state-conference February 17-18 Oakland, CA -*- Get your raffle tickets here! $1 -1 ticket or 6 -$5. Grand Prize: $500. cash Need not be present to win. -* - Want to make a difference? HLA CA Board of Trustees applications being accepted.
Hearing Loss Association of America 2012 National Convention June 21-24 Rhode Island Be an HLAA member today! By hard of hearing people for hard of hearing people. www.hearingloss.org |
ELECTIONS! We will be holding nominations and elections: Yes, it's that time of year. Please nominate yourself or someone you know that would enjoy helping our chapter grow. Working together we can make a difference. Nominations so far: ___ Steering Committee Leader - Lorraine Fanizza ___ Steering Committee Co-Leader ___ Steering Committee Treasurer (acting) Herb Balkind ___ Steering Committee Secretary; Recording ___ Steering Committee Secretary; Corespondance ___ Room set up and break down. ___ Happy Greeter - Front Entrance - Marilyn Hoppe ___ Sign in Coordinator works closely with PAL.- Harriett Porch ___ PAL Coordinator - FM Receivers. - Linda Williams ___ New member coordinator - Toni Barrient ___ Program coordinator. ___ Newsletter coordinator. ___ Special Events coordinator ___ Advertising coordinator - Toni Barrient ___ Hospitality coordinator. ___ HLAA Information Chair ___ HLA CA information Chair ___ HAT Committee Chair - Herb Balkind ___ Veteran's Chair ___ Emergency Laison Chair - Harriett Porch ___ Other Email me today at:Lorraine.Fanizza@HearingLossSCC.org | | National Young Adults Discussion Group Hearing Loss Association America Launches New Initiative for (Ages 18-35) HLAA Member Zac La Fratta moderates the discussions.. HearingLossNation Hearing Loss Young Adults Group (Ages 18-35) Orange County, CA rachel.m.mccallum@gmail.com
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