Category: News

Chapter Success Stories – Lisa Yuan!

Members, News, Success Stories

Our chapter has helped and encouraged so many members to understand, appreciate and learn to successfully move forward through the help and support of our chapter members. Through this, numerous success stories come forth including our own Lisa Yuan!

Although Lisa recently moved to the other side of the U.S., she is endeared and loved by our chapter through her many years of dedication to the chapter. Lisa’s story of what the chapter has helped her overcome and succeed is a story well worth sharing.

Let’s learn more about her story and the influence the chapter had on her life.

Lisa’s Story…

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Our Chapter New Home Search

Members, News

To our chapter members

As you may know, we are now in search of a new home for our chapter. It’s an exciting journey ahead but it will take involvement from everyone to offer ideas, input and to help us eventually find a new home. Here are the top choices thus far:

  • Dairy Queen
  • Dodger Stadium
  • Staples Center
  • The Forum
  • Six Flags

Tell us what you think and please share further ideas you may have.

The SC

New captioned and looped entertainment from Griot Theatre!

Accessible Entertainment, Events

It’s showtime at the Griot Theatre! The Archer from Malis, an adaption from Philoctetes by Sophocles will appear this weekend at the Getty Villa (April 15-17) – all shows captioned and looped, with Saturday, April 16 at 3pm ASL interpreted; then run for 4 weeks at the Lounge Theatres in Hollywood (April 29-May22) May 1 and May 14 captioned.

Please follow the link below (or copy and paste) for details:
http://conta.cc/20xtPpv

-Malik B. El-Amin, Artistic Director and Co-Founder

UC Irvine Seeking CI Users for Research

Members, News, Research
UC Irvine Hearing and Speech

Getting ready for a movie part?

I’m sharing this message from a graduate student at UC Irvine Hearing and Speech Lab, who is looking for cochlear implant users for his research. You won’t have to do much except sit there with a funky sensor cap on (see image below), and will be paid $10 an hour plus gas mileage:

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the head shapes electrical fields produced by cochlear implants. The aim is to help improve medical devices that use electrical stimulation to treat hearing-related and various neurological disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy).

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March 2016 Newsletter and Meeting

Meetings, News

Hi Everyone,

Below is the March 2016 Newsletter.

March 2016 Newsletter

We are having a very important meeting this Saturday and hope many of you will join us. We’ll be looking at the state of our chapter… where we’ve been, where we’re at, and where we’re headed. We can’t do this without your input! This is YOUR chapter, so please bring your thoughts, suggestions and ideas to this lively, open discussion.

As always, there will be coffee and plenty of refreshments, and the meeting will be captioned and looped.

The New HLAA-LA Chapter Website has Launched!

News, Website

***It was a long time coming but with the hard work and dedication of our Website Committee, we are proud to promote positive change with the release of the new website!

This chapter has a lot of passion and devotion to our HOH community so as the hearing needs and challenges continue to evolve, so too will this website. Ongoing new features and enhancements will be announced in the coming months so please continue to check in on a regular basis. And, we want to hear your ideas on how this website can better serve our chapter and HOH community, and be a great place for people to know that “we get it”.

Please use the Contact menu link to send us your comments and suggestions, plus anything that may not be working to your expectations.

Walk4Hearing – Coming in June!

Events, Fundraising, News
Walk 4 Hearing

The HLAA Walk4Hearing began in 2006 with just 6 walks and a dream of raising awareness for the hearing loss community. Ten years later, 22 walks around the country have made HLAA’s Walk4Hearing one of the largest fundraising events for people with hearing loss. Besides funds, the walks bring much-needed visibility to an often invisible condition. Please join other Southern Californians as we walk for the common goal of raising funds and awareness to the hearing loss community. » Read more

Amazing February Meeting!

Meetings, News
Message from our President, Pat Widman

It was great seeing so many of you at the meeting on Saturday We had a standing room only crowd which was great!!!

I want to thank Dana Sunderland again for facilitating the “Mixed Couples” discussion. Our panel of couples, Tim & Bianca, Alex & Doug, and Lisa Beth & Joe were great and I think we all benefited from the insightful discussion. Thank you all. We will be posting the meeting transcript later today.

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