Next Book: October 2026: Tuesday, October 27, 2026 5pm Western/7pm Central/ 8pm Eastern on Zoom: “The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the original deaf-blind girl” By Elisabeth Gitter. (BARD: DB 51840). Synopsis: “The life of Laura Bridgman, deaf and blind from age two, who became one of the most famous women of the […]
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HLAA-TC Book Club met on Monday, April 27, 2026 to discuss the memoir “Losing Music” By John Cotter and we welcomed author John Cotter. The next book and book club will be Tuesday May 26th 5pm Western/7pm Central/8pm Eastern and the book is the novel “All The Light We Cannot See” By Anthony Doerr. ZOOM
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After a delay (we usually like to announce all the book in at least January), HLAA-TC Book Club is happy to announce that ALL of the books from NOW until December 2026 have been placed on our Book Club Page on our Website with brief synopses for each book. Below is a chart that shows
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Next Book and Book Club: February book: Memoir “Being Seen: One DeafBlind woman’s fight to end ableism” By Elsa Sjunneson. BARD #: DB 105634. Tuesday, February 24, 2026 5pm Western/ 7pm Central/ 8pm Eastern Time. On Zoom with Captions. Free and open to all. Register for the Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Rkc5vJ5nTRmBlo7qW3rs5g Summary of January Book Club: Author Will Leitch is not disabled
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As mentioned earlier, HLAA-TC is participating in Minnesota’s fundraising event called Give To The Max Day TODAY, November 20, 2025. We have participated in years past and are again this year. It’s a chance for us to raise funds and awareness for our organization here in Minnesota. Please support us by donating if you can
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The September 20th HLAA-TC meeting is now on our YouTube channel (with captions). So please head over to our channel to watch the presentation (click the image to link below to be directed to the recording or click here): Thank you to presenter Dan Millikin, Director of Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing State Services
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Thank you to the small group that attended book club Tuesday when we talked about “No excuses: Growing up deaf and achieving my Superbowl Dreams.” (Nonfiction) By Derrick Coleman. We didn’t have the author attend this book club. A summary will up in a day or two where some links about the book and author
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Thank you to presenter Dan Millikin, Director of Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing State Services Division for presenting during our first Monthly Chapter Meeting of Fall 2025 on Saturday, SEPTEMBER 20th. Dan’s topic was “Discussion: Ways to facilitate collaboration with the state.” Dan’s informative talk will be posted to our YouTube channel (with captions)
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On Tuesday, August 26th HLAA-TC Book Club met to discuss the children’s book “Can She HEAR This Cat’s Meow?” with authors and guests Julia Metternich Olson and Colleen Julia Cline. We used their book as a way to talk about how to talk about hearing loss in families. The second half of book club we
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HLAA-TC Book Club met on Tuesday, July 22nd to discuss the memoir “In Silence: growing up hearing in a deaf world” by Ruth Sidransky (no special guests/author attended). Below is a summary with links. Next Book Club: AUGUST 2025: Tuesday, AUGUST 26, 5:00 pm Western/ 7:00 pm Central/ 8:00 pm Eastern Time. By Julia “Julie”Metternich Olson and Colleen Julia
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