Apple AirPods2 offer a Hearing Test, Clinical-Grade Hearing Assistance, and Hearing Protection for those with mild to moderate hearing loss.
More information here: https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/hearing-health/
Author: Kerry Sullivan
FCC Approves Hearing Aid Compatibility Order
In October, the FCC ruled that 100% of cellphones sold in the US need to be hearing aid/CI compatible over next 2-3 1/2 years, making it easier for those with hearing loss to purchase a compatible device.
A Life in Music, Lost and Found
Sunday Nov. 24th, 1:30-3:30. Watertown Library. Complimentary Food & Music.
Come hear Betty Hauck, a professional violist turned educator and Hearing Loss advocate, share her inspiring personal story and soul-warming music on violin and viola.
November HLAA Boston In-Person Chapter Meeting
Giving Tuesday – Dec 3rd
HLAA Boston is soliciting donations and volunteers
We need your help so that we may continue helping you and others who are HOH/Deaf … just like us. Fulfilling our mission of providing information, peer support, and advocacy for our local community takes dollars and volunteer hours to accomplish. Every little bit helps! GO to hlaa-boston.org to contribute and/or volunteer. THANK YOU!
Auracast: The Future of Hearing Assitive Tech
If you missed our October HLAA Boston chapter meeting on Auracast… one more try!
HLAA NYC Chapter Zoom Meeting: November 19th, 6:00-7:30
| Thomas Kaufman, Founder & Chief Technology Officer of OTOjOY and an innovator in assistive listening technologies will talk about the future of technology like hearing loops, IR and FM systems. Learn how the emergence of Auracast, a groundbreaking Bluetooth technology, can revolutionize hearing accessibility. Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpc-qhrTgjG9NBWdUTwZjMZ2FS-jWujrLt |
TED TALK: What you don’t know about hearing aids
Watch this!
For most of us, it is not a matter of if but when we will lose some of our hearing. Yet, we do not give hearing loss or hearing aids much thought until it happens to us or someone we love. It is then that we find out that hearing aids are incapable of restoring hearing to normal, especially in acoustically challenging situations.
The good news is that modern technology continues to bring us new, sometimes hidden, and often unknown features that can help those with hearing loss overcome more of their hearing challenges.
In this TED TALK, Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD, an audiologist with forty years of experience in hearing rehabilitation turned consumer advocate with the Hearing Loss Association of America, clearly describes the challenges of hearing aids and what people with hearing loss can do to supplement their effectiveness.
Mar 20th MEETING CANCELLED (Lip Reading Skills)
Our guest speaker has come down with Covid accompanied with laryngitis. Meeting will be rescheduled for a future date.
Join Us Jan 25th: Captions on your Eyeglasses!
Join us on January 25th at 6:30pm EST for a discussion with Tom Pritsky, founder of TranscribeGlass, an innovative start-up company whose Smart Glass product offers users the ability to “see” speech on their eyeglasses of choice.
RSVP required; email [email protected] for Zoom meeting details. Hope to see you there!