The new season (2022-2023) of HLAA-TC monthly chapter meetings begins with our first meeting on September 17th from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. The September meeting will be a Zoom meeting (email secretary@hlaatc.org for the Zoom meeting link.) You can always find information about our meetings on the Meetings page of our website. 

Below is a listing of the Chapter meetings with topic and speaker for the remainder of 2022. We will announce the 2023 chapter topics and speakers and book clubs at a later date.

HLAA-TC Monthly Chapter Meetings (September through May on the 3rd Saturday of the month 9:30 am – 12:00 pm)

September 17, 2022: Zoom Meeting: “Can Training Improve Understanding of Noisy Speech by Listeners with Hearing Loss?” by GW University (For the Zoom meeting link email secretary@hlaatc.org )

October 15, 2022:  Conference at Marriott Minneapolis West in St. Louis Park, MN (and Zoom broadcast, for the Zoom meeting link email secretary@hlaatc.org )”Preventing Noise-Induced Hearing Loss” by HLAA-TC with DHHSD For more details, read the Press Release here.

November 19, 2022: Format and Location To Be Announced: “Grief (hearing loss and loss)” by Kristen Swan, MA, LP, HealthPartners

December 17, 2022: Format and Location To Be Announced: “Family-Centered Hearing Care” by Barbara Joy Schneider, HLAA-TC President

Below is a listing of book clubs for the rest of 2022. For book club Zoom links email social@hlaatc.org and to find out more about the book club check out our Book Club page on our website: https://www.hlaatc.org/book-club/ 

HLAA-TC Book Club (Meets year-round on the 4th Tuesday of the month on Zoom) For Book Club Zoom link email social@hlaatc.org

August 23, 2022, 7pm (CST): Zoom Meeting: ”A Maiden’s Grave” by Jeffrey Deaver (Fiction/Mystery) 

September 27, 2022, 7pm (CST): Zoom Meeting: “The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (The History of Disability, 1)”  by Kim E. Nielsen (nonfiction) WITH AUTHOR ATTENDANCE!

October 25, 2022, 1pm (CST): Zoom Meeting: “The Quality of Silence” by Rosamund Lupton (fiction/novel). WITH AUTHOR ATTENDANCE!

November 22, 2022, 7pm (CST): Zoom Meeting: “ A loss for words: story of deafness in a family” by Lou Ann Walker (nonfiction). WITH AUTHOR ATTENDANCE!

December 27, 2022, 7pm (CST): Zoom Meeting: “Rules for Visiting” by Jessica Francis Kane (Fiction).