Newsletter
Last Updated:June 25, 2010
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Newsletter
Last Updated:June 25, 2010 |
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JULY 2010 UPDATE THE NEXT CHAPTER MEETING will be held on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at the Selby Public Library 2nd floor conference room, 1331 First Street, Sarasota from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. There will be a rap session. Everyone is invited to share concerns about coping with hearing loss and meet HLAS members who may be able to offer support.
THE NEXT HLAS BOARD OF TRUSTEE MEETING will be held on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at the North Sarasota Public Library, 2801 Newtown Blvd. from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. The focus will be on general meeting program content for September 2010 to May 2011. All HLAS members are invited to attend.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH NEWS - HLAS supports community health fairs with a booth to feature hearing information and provide mentoring. We also provide speakers and presentations to groups interested in learning more about our services and membership. Thanks to all our volunteers who make these outreach efforts possible. Here's our recent schedule: May 18 Bradenton Lion's Club - HLAS Role in the Community - Ed Ogiba April 28 WSLR "Between the Lines" - Discussing Hearing Loss - Gary Olson, DJ Magnus, Ed Ogiba. You can listen to the whole program on Podcast see. http://www.wslr.org. Click on "Between the Lines" under Podcast on right of page. April 25 Church of the Nativity Health Fair - Ruth Rosenberg, Ed Ogiba April 9 Community Health Improvement Partnership (CHIP) - HLAS's Role in the Community - Marcy Sarkozy, Ed Ogiba see http://www.chip4health.org March 14 First Congregational United Church of Christ Health Fair - LaVonne Stocco, Frank Stocco, Ruth Rosenberg, Ed Ogiba
FAQ – WHAT IS LOOPING TECHNOLOGY? Looping Technology is a system that uses magnetic energy to transmit a signal from a television or a public address system to the telecoil, equipped in the hearing aid or cochlear implant and is used within an induction looped area. The loop could be as small as a piece of wire worn around the neck or as large as a ring of cable placed around the perimeter of a room or space. Loops can be installed in a home, church, theatre, car, bank, or doctor’s office. All a consumer has to do is enter the looped facility and activate the hearing aid/cochlear implant telecoil by switching to the telecoil (T) position. If simultaneous acoustic access is desired, the microphone/telecoil (M/T) position can be used. There is no need for additional hearing devices.
JUNE 2010 UPDATE
MEMBER NEWS – Ralph Intorcio, chapter Past President, is recuperating from hip surgery. Get well wishes may be sent to him by e-mail: Ralph@intorcio.org or to: 5246 Oakland Hills Ave., Sarasota, FL 34234. Paul Temmer is also recuperating from surgery. Get well messages can be sent by e-mail: paulrtemmer@aol.com or cards and letters may be sent to: 5400 Eagles Point Circle, # 104, Sarasota, FL 34231. HLAF BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING JUNE 5, 2010 - The Hearing Loss Association of Florida will host their Board of Trustees meeting in Sarasota on Saturday, June 5 and has invited all HLAS members to attend. This is a great opportunity to meet our state wide leadership and hear first hand about their important upcoming programs. One of the agenda items is to discuss "Let's Loop Florida", a new initiative to make looping technology more prevalent across the state. The meeting will be temporarily looped by Jim Scott who is speaking at the HLAS November 17 meeting. Location: Country Inn & Suites, 5730 Gantt Road (off Clark & I-75), Sarasota Meeting begins at 10 a.m. sharp. Come at 9:30 for coffee, donuts and getting acquainted. FAQ – WHY DO HEARING AIDS COST SO MUCH? You can expect to pay approximately $1000 to $5,000 for each hearing aid. There are a number of reasons hearing aids are so costly and the sales volume plays into the equation. For example: In 2007, members of Hearing Industries Association, a hearing aid manufacturer trade group, sold about 2.4-million hearing aids nationwide. In contrast, Apple announced the sale of its 100-millionth iPod in 2007. While iPods are all identical, according to model, each hearing aid is custom-made, mostly by hand, for each patient. They must be fitted by an audiologist or licensed hearing aid specialist. Then there's the markup. Last year, the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer quoted Don Schum, vice president for audiology at Oticon, the world's second-largest hearing aid manufacturer, as saying audiologists and licensed fitters routinely add 100 percent markups to manufacturers' prices. Manufacturers and retailers say prices reflect expensive research, quality improvements and overhead costs. Most hearings aids available today are digital. This fact alone doesn't make them superior to analog devices, said Todd A. Ricketts, an assistant professor in the department of hearing and speech sciences at Vanderbilt University and director of the Dan Maddox Hearing Aid Research Laboratory, in a report published by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). However, they can reduce feedback and background noise, and enhance speech in ways their analog counterparts can't. A microprocessor is programmed for each individual wearer. The devices are smaller, lighter and less obtrusive Newsletter\Feb 2008 Website1 newsletter.doc |
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