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event – Hearing Loss Association of America | Boston Chapter

NE Regional Convention – Living Well w/ Hearing Loss

March 28-30, Hilton Garden Inn – Marlborough MA

Keynote speaker Barbara Kelley, HLAA National. Other topics include emotional resilience, coping skills, the latest tech + AI, cybersecurity and safety.

Conference fee: $35 ($25 students) includes Saturday breakfast, lunch, dinner plus Friday night buffet.

To Register: [email protected]

Stay: NE Convention Hotel

ADA accommodations are available upon request.

Toastmasters Online for People with Hearing Loss

Need a boost in confidence? Some friendly coaching to improve your speaking skills?

If so, you might like to join the Audible Talkers Toastmasters, which is designed for people with hearing loss. This friendly group meets online via Zoom the first and third Mondays from 6-7:15 pm Arizona time. Everyone is welcome. Questions? Contact Chirsty Abrams ([email protected]) or Harry Wolfe ([email protected]). 

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!

Relationships & Hearing Loss, Dec 2nd

Time: 11:55am -12:55pm; Meeting on Zoom. Registration required at hearinglossrochester.org

Why can communication go awry for couples? Attendees will be able to identify at least two reasons why, learn two specific strategies to improve communication in a relationship, along with two insights to explore this conversation further and improve your relationship with your partner.

Join the HLAA Rochester Chapter for the featured Zoom presentation led by Dr. Meaghan Fox, a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Rochester, specializing in services for people with hearing loss and their families.

 [email protected]

Chapter Meeting: Hearing Restoration project:  Why is SNHL so hard to treat?

When: Wednesday September 18th at 6 pm.
Where: Zoom, you can register here.

Presenter Tian Wang, a molecular biologist who is currently Program Manager for the Hearing Restoration Project (a medical research program directly funded by Congress) will share with us why SNHL is so hard to treat.  With no agreed to underlying disease biology, SNHL treatments in trial are somewhat a shot in the dark with very low success rates.  Currently no approved FDA drugs exist although recent gene mutation reversal efforts show promise.  Tian will talk about exciting projects planned and what we as consumers can do to support hearing research.

Dr. Wang