Category Archives: Meetings

The meeting featured Melanie O’Brien, Au.D., who is the Mid-Atlantic Customer Trainer for Phonak Hearing Systems.  She described some of the features now available in Phonak hearing aid, such as SoundRecover.  This is a means of converting higher frequency sound information … Continue reading →

Topic: Assistive Listening Devices Our speaker for the October meeting will be Dr. Melanie O’Brien, the Mid-Atlantic Customer Trainer for Phonak Hearing Systems. She joined the Phonak team as an educational trainer in June 2011. Her primary responsibility is for … Continue reading →

Dan Prisbrey, a representative of CaptionCall, demonstrated a captioning telephone made by the company. This phone makes use of a high speed Internet connection, but does not require having a computer. The phone plugs into an ordinary telephone outlet, and … Continue reading →

Our next meeting will be held on the second Monday of September because of the Labor Day holiday which falls on our usual first Monday meeting date. Our speaker will be Daniel Prisbrey, a representative from CaptionCall, (a subsidiary of … Continue reading →

The meeting on June 6 was an ice cream social, a good way to start the summer.

MontCo member Diana Bender, who is also Co-Director of the HLA-PA gave a presentation called “Things I Wish my Audiologist had told me!”  This was really a sort of “Mission Statement” about the matters of great interest to people with … Continue reading →

Elizabeth LeBarron, who serves as the the National States and Chapters Coordinator for HLAA was our speaker for the April meeting. She described her work in suport of local chapters, which are the core strength of the Hearing Loss Association. … Continue reading →

Karen Latimer, of Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT) , was our speaker for the March meeting.  She described various aspects of PIAT’s work, including a lending library of assistive devices, and a program that can provide devices at no … Continue reading →

Our speaker this month is Karen Latimer, the Assistive Technology Specialist for Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT), which is located at the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University here in Philadelphia. Karen has been involved in the field of Assistive … Continue reading →

The chapter celebrated the holiday season at the recent meeting with raspberry punch and a variety of holiday treats. Several visitors were present, and took part in the wide ranging discussions, mostly about dealing with hearing loss. A few chapter … Continue reading →