Experience HLAA! Schedule Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19, 2020 Presented by An online experience open to the world of people with hearing loss, their families and friends, hearing health care professionals, and anyone interested in hearing health. No registration fee. REGISTER NOW! People who attend HLAA Conventions look for the latest in hearing technology […]
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Facebook Captioning Tips
Note: Not all facebook videos will have captioning. Especially older videos and those just uploaded by users. They don’t all put captions on them. You can also find these procedures while in Facebook by clicking on the ? at the top right which will bring up the help window. Type ‘Captions’ and it will give […]
Update to Facebook Caption Tips
Note: Not all facebook videos will have captioning. Especially older videos and those just uploaded by users. They don’t all put captions on them. You can also find these procedures while in Facebook by clicking on the ? at the top right which will bring up the help window. Type ‘Captions’ and it will give […]
2020 Annual meeting has been canceled.
Dear friends of HLAA-MI & Board of Trustees. The annual meeting committee is following suit along with many other events that have been cancelled across the country. Our annual meeting event that was scheduled for April 18 has been CANCELLED. It will not be rescheduled for this year.
Can Hearing Aids Help Prevent Dementia? from The New York Times
Click Here for an interesting article from The New York Times about hearing loss, hearing aids and dementia. To activate the link you need to click “Continue Reading” first.
Latest appointments to the Advisory Council on Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing
Congratulations to HLAA Michigan member and Grand Rapids Chapter leader, Gerid Adams! Governor Whitmer just announced her latest appointments to the Advisory Council on Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing. Here are the names and bios of those appointed: Gerid C. Adams, of Wyoming, is a field trainer and accounts manager for CaptionCall and the […]
Beginning Lip Reading
Cochlear Implants: Who is a Candidate?
Aural Rehab Events at Central Michigan University
Learn about hearing loss and new technology with different topics every month. Flyer is available below. Most of the info should also be in this post (just not a pretty!). Our free classes are for hearing aid & cochlear implant recipients or those with hearing loss interested in amplification or cochlear implants. Friends and family […]
A Convention Experience Shared by Our 2019 Scholarship Recipient
Gerid Adams, the current President of the Greater Grand Rapids HLAA Chapter, was the recipient of the 2019 HLAA-MI Scholarship to the HLAA National Convention. Gerid shares his impressions of his first convention experience. The HLAA 2019 convention consisted of 10 workshop sessions; each session had a choice between 5 tracks. The tracks were Advocacy, […]