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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Welcome to HearHereWoodland the blog for the Woodland Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America.
We are your local source for information on hearing loss and work to bring information to the public on the effects of hearing loss on the general public

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Hear! Here! The Woodland Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America [HLAA] meets at the Woodland Community and Senior Center located at 2001 East Street Woodland and at the Davis Senior Center at 646 A Street, Davis. Assisted Listening Devices are available at all our meetings.

March 25th. Meeting: Our next meeting is in Woodland on Monday the 25th of March at 10 a.m. Our speaker will be Audiologist Adriana Goyette who conducted doctoral research on ways to improve the lives of people with Hearing Loss and Tinnitus (ringing in the ears). If you suffer from tinnitus, Adriana will have great information for you! And if you have friends who live with tinnitus or hearing loss, invite them for this special speaker!! Adriana is originally from Brazil and enjoys speaking Portuguese and Spanish.

All our welcome at our meetings. See you there!

TECHNOLOGY CORNER

3/15/2011
Frustrated looking for captioned movies available on Netflix? Check out www.Phlixie.com a new app designed to make it easy to locate accessible titles. The creators say that they are still in the works of improving the layout of the site but they wanted to get the app out for use by the public as soon as possible.They will continue to fine tune it.
01/10/2011
HLAA has created videos that you may see on www.hearingloss.org/learn/hearingloss . They answer questions about hearing loss.
11/19/2009
Google announces machine generated captions [see 11/30/2009 post]
11/19/2009
It was announced today that Howard Weinstein was awarded the 2009 Economic Development Award for his company's, Solar Ear, development of a rechargeable digital aid that costs under $100.00, as well as the development of rechargeable batteries which last from 1-2 years and are usable in any hearing aid.

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