HLAA – Montgomery County Chapter

Update:
A dozen MontCo members braved wintery weather to enjoy the party.

Note:
MontCo HLAA does not meet in January or February.  Our next meeting will be on March 3, 2014, and will feature a speaker from the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.

Our December meeting on 12/9  (a week later than our usual date) will be a holiday party.

An entree (Swedish meatballs!) will be provided, as well as veggies, beverages, and desserts.   Cash contributions will be welcome to defray expenses.

At 6 p.m., at the Jeanes Library.  As always, visitors are welcome.

Come help to celebrate the holday season.

In November, Elaine Goldberg, who attended the National Convention of the Hearing Loss Association of America in Portland Oregon will report on her experience there.  We expect to have CART in operation for this meeting. (CART = live captioning of the speaker, projected on a screen), and the newly installed loop system will be in operation.

At 6:00 p.m. on Monday 11/2 at the Jeanes Library.

As always, visitors are welcome

A dozen members defied tornado warnings to attend the official introduction of the loop system at the Jeanes Library.  Don Groff described the system history, installation, and operation in some detail.

Refreshments were provided, with a toast offered with sparkling cider.

A diagram of the system is provided here.  Some of the system components were provided by our chapter.

We will officially introduce the new hearing loop system in the Willaman Community Commons at the library.  A chapter member will describe the loop installation in some detail, although this is primarily a social event, a coming-out party, so to speak.

A number of loop receivers will be available for those without T-coil-equippped hearing aids, or no hearing aids at all.

As always, visitors are welcome, and especially at this event.

Light refreshments will be available.

Monday, October 7, 6:00 – 7:45 p.m..  The meeting room is in the lower level of the library.

We’ll meet at 6 p.m. at the Jeanes Library on the second Monday of September, since the first Monday of this month, our ususal meeting date was Labor Day.

Jeanne Fredriksen, Med-El representative will speak about new develo9pments in cochlear implants. There will be a brief business meeting.

The newly installed hearing loop will be in operation.

Annual dues wiill be payable.

Visitors are always welcome.

Our June meeting will be strictly a social event, with a range of appetizers provided, as well as drinks.

All are welcome, especially visitors, but please RSVP to pattypeep@gmail.com, so we now how much food to bring.

Monday evening 6/3, 6 p.m., at the Jeanes Library, Lafayette Hill.

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On May 6th, we will be using a CART system at our meeting.  That’s an acronym for Communication Access in Real Time, or Computer Assisted Realtime Transcription, in which all spoken words are displayed on a screen.  This makes the meeting accessible to those whose hearing loss is such that the loop system is not adequate.

Specifically, we will be using Remote CART, in which the captioner attends the meeting  through an internet connection (actually Skype)

The topic at this meeting, beside the CART system itself, will be the wealth of internet references and support available online.  Attendees are invited to suggest sites they find valuable.

Visitors always welcome.  At the Jeanes Library in Lafayette Hill, 6 p.m. Monday 5/6.