Upcoming Meeting Preview –
Wednesday, October 10, at NOON
Our October meeting will be quite interesting even if you don’t require a hearing assistance dog. Chapter member Chris Goodier has overcome hearing loss to forge a writing career and will share her knowledge about hearing assistance dogs. Chris will also share lots of travel tips with us.
The presentation is entitled, “Would a Hearing Assistance Dog be Right for Me?”.
Christine Goodier is an Osprey, Florida-based freelance travel writer, editor and photographer. She started her career working in sales and marketing jobs for international airlines and cruise lines. Chris began writing about the Caribbean for magazines, tourist guides, and other publications while living on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She currently writes RV travel articles for Motorhome Magazine.
Since 2014, her Hearing Dog, Raylene, a Labrador trained by Dogs for Better Lives, a nonprofit organization previously known as Dogs for the Deaf, has accompanied her on her travels. With co-author Henry Kisor, Chris has written a unique travel guide to be published in 2019 by the University of Illinois Press titled “Journeys with Working Dogs: Navigating Service Animals Across North America”.
Wednesday, September 12 at NOON
Meetings will run from Noon to 1:30 PM.
The Chapter will open the room by 11:45 AM and encourages members to come early, as the Chapter will provide sandwiches, chips and cookie at a charge of $5.
It’s OK to bring your own lunch as well!
Flo Innes was an early Chapter member, back when HLAA was SHHH. Flo owned and operated Advocates for Better Hearing, a unique storefront on Route 41 just past Bee Ridge Road where she offered every hearing assistive device imaginable.
Flo attended the HLAA Convention in June held in Minneapolis. She spent three days interacting with the 60 or so vendors and will update us on “Assisted Listening Devices – Do They Work?”.
July 11th and August 8th, 1:30
During the summer months, the Chapter conducts “Rap Sessions”.
There is no guest speaker, just an open session to focus on your individual needs.
Attendance is strong although some folks have wandered “up north”. At these meetings, most all questions, concerns, successes and disappointments are shared and discussed.
We will be facilitated by Dr. Vicki Moore of The Hearing Spa and Dr. Sharon Rende of the Silverstein Institute at the July “Rap Session”.
YOUR experiences and questions, covering all facets of coping with hearing loss, are the heart and soul of these summer “rap sessions”.
JUNE 13, 1:30 PM
During the months of June, July and August, the chapter conducts “Rap Sessions”. There is no guest speaker, just an open session to focus on your individual needs.
Attendance is strong although some folks have wandered “up north”. At these meetings, most all questions, concerns, successes and disappointments are shared and discussed.
Our Program Coordinator, Kathy Combs, has arranged to have a professional partner, a local audiologist, to assist in the discussion; however, YOUR experiences and questions, covering all facets of coping with hearing loss, are the heart and soul of these summer “rap sessions”.
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