November 2019
Our HLCnova meeting on October 26, 2019 was a great success due to Joe Duarte’s excellent presentation on “Home Safety for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Mild Hearing Loss”. He covered hearing aids and cochlear implants and how each work with different home alert equipment. His shared heartfelt personal experiences made the information very valuable.
We used a new phone captioning devise, Otter, due to a last-minute change with CART. Bob Silber provided a running dialogue of Joe’s speech so that we could all read it on the screen as it was happening! Thank you so much for your hard work, Joe and Bob. It worked well and may be used for future presentations. Try this at home!
Upcoming Meeting-November 16, 2019
Dr. Wade Chien, M.D., FACS is speaking on “Recent and Current Clinical Trials to Remediate Hearing Loss”. He is a principal investigator of the Inner Ear Gene Therapy Program of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NICD. He is also an assistant professor in the department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has an active clinical practice in Bethesda, MD.
He will be speaking for 45+ minutes with 15-20 minutes for questions and answers. Please send your questions for Dr. Chien to rmsilber@gmail.com before November 9, 2019 in order for Dr. Chien to be able to address all inquiries. He will greatly appreciate your help in managing our time together.
We are expecting a sizable audience for this meeting. Please send a quick RSVP to info@HLCnova.org so we can plan room arrangement and chairs. We will provide coffee/water with light refreshments and are asking for volunteers on refreshments. Please contact Alice Crume at info@hlcnova.org.If you find you can attend the program at the last minute, please come. You will be welcome.