Our next meeting will feature the ever popular rap session. Here’s your chance to share experiences, something you’ve read or whatever you’d like with other chapter members and learn a few things yourself. We will also talk about topics for future meetings. Please join us for our next meeting which will be held on
MONDAY,
May 7, 2012
beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the newly renovated Jeanes Library.
Montco returns to the Jeanes Library!
Renovations on the Jeanes Library have now been completed and the library is welcoming our chapter back to their brand new meeting room. Our April meeting and future meetings will be at the William Jeanes Library, 4051 Joshua Road, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444 and our NEW meeting hours are 6 to 7:45 p.m. The library closes at 8 pm. We are very fortunate indeed!
Captioning Comes to the Movies!
Alan Kutner, Chairperson of the HLA-PA Movie Captioning Committee, will be on hand to tell us about the progress his committee has made in bringing captioning to your local movie theater. Alan is a retired attorney who loves the movies. As his hearing loss became more severe, he found he was unable to understand the dialog in the theater. As many of our members know, rear window captioning has been available for the past few years at the Plymouth Meeting theater, but on only a single screen in the theater. As a result of recent court rulings all theaters must now provide captioning and we will soon have our choice of seeing captions on a screen or through hi-tech glasses. Alan will show you the different types of gadgets which show captions in major movie theaters.
Alan lives in Havertown and is a member of the Delaware County HLAA chapter. He is active on the HLA-PA advisory council and at the PA Walk4Hearing. He is an excellent table tennis player and, as a part-time actor, he is an excellent speaker.
Please join us for our next meeting which will be held on
MONDAY,
April 2, 2012
beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the newly renovated Jeanes Library.April M
It was our last meeting at Mercy Suburban, and next month we return to the Jeanes Library , where the renovation and expansion program is now complete.
The topic at the March meeting dealt with how to communicate with people with hearing loss.
The next meeting will be April 2 at Jeanes. Since the library now closes at 8 p.m., we will meet at 6 p.m., and finish by 7:45.
The Jeanes Library is at at 4051 JOSHUA ROAD, LAFAYETTE HILL, PA 19444. See the link above for a map.
After a winter break, our meetings resume on Monday March 5, at 6:30 in the Gerber Room at Mercy Suburban Hospital.
The topic will be Communicating with People with Hearing Loss. A local Realtor and Professor of Sociology with take part in the discussion.
Our longtime former venue, the Jeanes Library in Lafayette Hill has completed their renovation program, and we will discuss the possibility of returning there for our meetings.
All are welcome.
There is a nice review of current assistive listening devices in the Hearing Review journal, which you can rea online at
http://www.hearingreview.com/issues/articles/2012-02_06.asp
It does not, however, pay very much attention to conventional large area loops and conventional T-coil technology, except for the very last line!
A Black and White Masquerade Fundraiser Party will be hosted by Gen X and Bucks County Chapters in King of Prussia on March 24
Details HERE .
I just ordered another DVD course from The Great Courses . We’ve been through a number of their offerings, and have found them to be of high quality, and well worth the $75 or so that they cost, at least when they are discounted 70% from list price, which happens regularly.
With one major reservation; apparently none of their offerings is captioned. I would judge that a significant fraction of their market is like me, hard of hearing, and would greatly benefit from captioning.
In an e-mail exchange with the publisher some time ago I raised this issue. Their response I would call pretty lame; “Spend another $25 to buy the transcript of the course”. They would have me follow the text in my lap, glancing up occasionally to see the finely crafted video presentation.
The publisher claimed that they don’t get many complaints about the lack of captioning. I hope that this posting may lead potential customers to weigh in on the matter.
