This is the first LA Cochlear Implant Group meeting of 2017! Cochlear Americas is speaking to us so please review the information provided below. Come and hear about the latest in their technology!!!
Hope to see many of you there!
We’re kicking off 2017 with a presentation from audiologist Jeff Grama, who’s been a good friend to HLAA for many years. Jeff will update us on the latest hearing aid technology and trends. Jeff is a great audiologist (many of our members are satisfied clients!), and can answer any of your audiology-related questions as well.
Remember – this is the first meeting in our NEW MEETING SPACE: the East Room of the Wingate Building at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, 100 W. California Ave, Pasadena.
It was a happening holiday party filled with fun, laughter and much needed catching up with friends we just don’t get to see enough of. As usual, Danny was our White Elephant host providing laughter and interesting insights to the various gifts received. Even without a loop! Any many thanks to Heather Lehr for opening up her wonderful home to the vast array of foods and invasion of numerous people. As far as we can tell, everyone was recognizable so no party crashers!
Come see HLAA-LA member Chris Grafil perform, along with other talented comedians, while helping out our chapter! The venue will be looped!
Our annual rap session is the perfect way to kick off the holiday season, as we discuss how to get through the holiday season with hearing loss. This year, we’ll engage in some role playing — acting out possible scenarios to help illustrate communication and coping strategies. It should be fun and educational, so please join us! Feel free to bring a dish, dessert or beverages for our potluck lunch following the meeting. Meeting newsletter can be viewed here.
If you shop on Amazon, please remember this very simple way to help raise extra money for our chapter. Instead of using the regular Amazon link, shop at this link: http://smile.amazon.com/ch/20-2044713 and AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to the our chapter. If you haven’t done so already, just sign in using your Amazon login information, and you’ll be all set.
After attending just a couple meetings, Heather Lehr has generously offered to host our annual holiday festivities at her lovely San Marino home (address to be provided), and we couldn’t be more grateful!
Dr. Brad Ingrao – an audiologist with 25 years of diagnosing, dispensing, and teaching experience – was a contributing writer for the recently published book Making Music with Hearing Loss.
After 12 years, we are excited to announce that we are relocating our meetings!
The quarterly newsletter of HLAA-CA, the Hearing Loss Association of America, California State Association, is edited by our very own Grace Tiessen. Inside this edition, you’ll find articles from HLAA-LA chapter members Mitzi Shpak (page 2), and Liz Lesan (page 8), who shares her experiences as a first-time attendee at the HLAA National Convention last June. There’s also a lovely, well-deserved tribute to Nanci Linke-Ellis, who is retiring from her position as HLAA-CA SoCal Chapter Coordinator.
To view read the newsletter, click on the image below:
