HLAA-TC met on Saturday, April 17, 2021, from 9:30 am – 12:00 pm for our April HLAA-TC meeting. The speaker was U of M audiologist Katherine Teece, AudD and she spoke about a study she is conducting about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting those with sensory loss (vision, hearing, etc.). A meeting summary will […]
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HLAA-TC has found out about several opportunities for COVID-19 vaccines that provide accessibility for Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing. We wanted to share the information with you; our community. More accessibility vaccine options are becoming available and we will continue to update this post and social media. 1. ThinkSelf in St. Paul, MN
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Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), the national chapter, has released data they gathered from a survey on how those with hearing loss are managing the global health pandemic of COVID-19. Please read the survey results here. The key takeaways are that “nearly half of those with hearing loss noticed impacts to other aspects of
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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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Virtual Visits with Hearing Loss By Christine Morgan, HLAA-TC President (Originally published in our May 2020 newsletter) What happens when you have hearing loss and can’t see your healthcare provider face-to-face? Have you had the “virtual visit” experience? Has it been satisfactory for you? Let me give you four of my personal examples. A routine
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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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