In this blog post, we have a variety of helpful website links. The first link of mention is a video that HLAA-TC President Christine Morgan was featured in. Morgan was interviewed by University of Minnesota Journalism student Ashley Clemens. Morgan spoke about how the global health crisis of COVID-19 is affecting the hearing loss community. […]
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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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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(This article originally appeared in the May 2020 HLAA-TC newsletter. Written by Laura Hagemann.) As COVID-19 has changed a lot of daily activities for everyone, surgical and cloth face masks are becoming more commonly used by the average person. Those who are deaf or hard of hearing know, a mask that covers the wearer’s mouth
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The HLAA-TC board has made the decision to cancel the monthly HLAA-TC meeting that was originally scheduled for Saturday, May 16th. The “Stay Home” order for Minnesota has been extended by Governor Walz to last until May 18th, therefore it is necessary to cancel our May meeting. (Please find out more about the extended “Stay
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Here’s another COVID-19 news update with a list of stores that have adjusted their hours due to the health crisis. (This graphic is also in the April newsletter and has been posted on the HLAA-TC Facebook page.) We created this graphic with the store hours and when senior citizen/vulnerable customers shopping time is for each store
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HLAA (the national organization) has decided to cancel the HLAA Convention that was scheduled to take place in June of this year in New Orleans, Louisiana. You can read more about their decision to cancel on the HLAA blog. Like a lot of organizations, HLAA made this decision to cancel the convention due to COVID-19
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Since there is a lot of information out there right now about the current COVID-19 virus outbreak HLAA-TC wanted to gather a list of resources together to recommend. We will be updating Facebook and LinkedIn with more articles as they come to our attention in the passing days. Websites (in no particular order): Centers for
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