The next virtual (Zoom) meeting (on October 17th) will feature Dr. Tina Huang talking about Tinnitus. Dr. Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in Otology and Neurotology which as she phrases it is “the study of the ears and the skull base.” Her talk […]
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One of the topics discussed in the September Zoom meeting (and mentioned in our September Meeting Roundup) was the need for members to renew their membership to HLAA-TC or for people to join if they haven’t done so already. As a non-profit organization, a strong membership is important for us to fulfill our mission. Members are
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In addition to the more detailed meeting notes that are published in each monthly newsletter, we have decided to include a brief visual synopsis of each meeting. We are calling this feature a “Meeting Roundup” and this is the one for our most recent meeting that we had Saturday, September 19th on Zoom. Our next
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Simple Instructions to Use Zoom to Attend HLAA-TC meetings Last week we released longer directions on how to use Zoom. To simplify things we have created this graphic below with steps on how to use Zoom. (To read the longer instructions, click here.) The registration link to register for the September 19th meeting is in
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Instructions for Using Zoom for our Monthly Chapter Meetings (Published in the September 2020 newsletter and saved on the HLAA-TC website under the Meetings, and Blog tabs.) All information on using Zoom was gathered from the Zoom Website. All monthly chapter meetings will be held on Zoom for this 2020-2021 season. The first meeting will be
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Announcing ALL HLAA-TC meetings will be Virtual in 2020-2021 By Laura Hagemann HLAA-TC 1st Zoom Meeting: September 19, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. The end of our Spring 2020 HLAA-TC sessions were canceled due to concerns about COVID-19, and we didn’t know how 2020-2021 would be affected. We can now announce that the HLAA-TC board has
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Virtual Theatre and Live Performances By Laura Hagemann As the concern of COVID-19 still dominates our lives more and more aspects of daily life are becoming virtual. Now areas of life that were more “special events” or occasional activities are also becoming virtual. In that latter category is theatre, live performances, and cultural events. Broadway
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The “Live Well With Hearing Loss” 2020 Conference that was being hosted by Hearing Loss Association of America- Twin Cities Chapter (HLAA-TC) has been canceled by our Board due to concerns about COVID-19. The conference was scheduled for Saturday, October 10, 2020, at the Marriott Minneapolis West in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota. We have talked
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Social distancing has magnified problems for people with severe hearing loss By Dwight Maxa, HLAA-TC Board Member (Originally published in our May 2020 newsletter) Standing 6 feet or more from the person you are trying to communicate with isn’t easy for many of us. I ended up with a very strange pizza the other day
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“We’re all in this together” By Mike Higgins, HLAA-TC Vice President (Originally published in our May 2020 newsletter) This is certainly true but each of us is experiencing different levels of stress. The challenge is how to deal with this stress. The article “How to Stop Feeling So Helpless During Quarantine” from the UC Berkeley
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