Calendar: June Speaker’s Meeting
June 8
Drew Weldon from Hamilton Relay will be speaking about the relay and its new developments.June 4 Airline Travel and the ADA
- Southeast DBTAC is developing a training curriculum for airlines that will address
The legal requirements and experiences of people with disabilities. We would like to hear about
your "Real Life Experiences” as an individual with a disability with airlines. These stories can
reflect good or bad experiences that you may have had while traveling by air. From the
parking lot to the front counter to the flight --etc.! This can be about you, a family member,
friends, consumers, etc., however we need factual stories. These stories will be used to develop
"real life" case studies. Please send it to me via email at cheri@catea.org by June 4, 2004.
Please include your contact information so that we can follow up, if needed. If you have any
questions, please contact me by phone or email.
Thank you in advance!
Cheri Hofmann, Training Manager
Southeast DBTAC--A project of Georgia Tech's Center for Assistive
Technology and Environmental Access Your Regional Resource Center on the ADA and Accessible IT
1-800-949-4232 (v/tty) [Southeast Region] 404-385-0636 (v/tty) 404-385-0641 (fax)
www.sedbtac.org
Join us there.
June 12 Derbytown SHHH Yard Sale
- "We are planning to have a yard sale on Saturday, June 12 at Paula Esterle's house at
1803 Girard, 40222. This will be a subdivision wide sale and Paula very kindly
volunteered her garage for the sale! It will partly be my sale (Judy Rogers)
and partly Hazel's sale and we will sell SHHH stuff as well. We have a lot of SHHH stuff
in my basement which I will bring to the sale. If you have anything to donate please bring
it to me at the meeting on June the 8th...or bring the items to me in Pewee Valley....
contact me Judy or phone ( 502 241-0990 TTY)..
Thanks so much.. " -Judy Rogers
- FLV will have a Deaf/HOH Panel who will describe their experiences growing up
Deaf/HOH to parents of Deaf/HOH children. This is a program co-sponsored by the
KY School for the Deaf. Paula is looking for panel volunteers. If you can serve on
this panel, please contact Pat Bruce at KSD, TTY—859-239-7017, ext. 2503;
pbruce@ksd.k12.ky.us
- We plan to have our monthly informal dinner at Piccadilly’s on Hurstbourne Lane at
Shelbyville Rd. on the fourth Saturday, at 2:00 pm. Please let Ed know in advance if
you want a table looped to facilitate conversation via your T-switch.
- Will meet 1:30 to 4:30 at the National Guard Association of Kentucky, 1111 Louisville Rd., Frankfort We need SHHH members who are willing to attend.
Sign Language Practice Group
- Do you want to learn sign language as a back-up to your hearing aids?
Our Sign Language Practice Group meets the first, third and fourth Mondays of each month.
(No meeting on the Monday before our Tuesday Speaker’s Meeting.) Please note: This is
not an ASL class. This is members helping members to informally learn basic sign and to
practice skills. There is no text. No formal instructor. We meet at Harvey Brown
Presbyterian Church, 311 Browns Lane, near Shelbyville Rd. at 7:00, 2nd floor northeast
Room 216.
There will be no meeting on 5/31, Memorial Day or Monday June 7. Our next Sign Practice Meeting will be Monday, June 14.
- June 28 & 29 Van Helsing. Showcase Stonybrook.
Thanks:
- We owe thanks to Melanie Magruder for all the work she does for the newsletter and captioned movies. Her role as an officer is invaluable.
- The Next Commission Meeting is July 23. We need SHHH members to attend.
- We would like to stay in touch with all of our newcomers. If you have internet access and you
are not receiving the newsletter and periodic e-mails, please consider contacting
Melanie Magruder and Mary Lee Nelson
to be placed on our e-mail list.
Volunteers are needed to greet newcomers as they arrive, introduce them to the group and connect them to a member who could act as a resource/mentor for them. Dale has agreed to head a committee. Are you willing to assist others? Please consider volunteering. Please contact him to talk about ways to greet and assist our new members. We have had a number of newcomers who have attended one or two meetings. We do not have their names or a way to contact them. We don’t even know why they have not returned. We need to do a better job of greeting and welcoming people. We need a way to mentor them. Remember your first meeting? What was good and not so good? How can you share the positive with a newcomer? Will you welcome a newcomer?
- study group met
Thursday, May 27. Mary Lee Nelson, Paula Esterle and Ed represented Derbytown SHHH at this meeting. We focused on reviewing our accomplishments for the Commission, developing ideas for a packet on Living With Hearing Loss which KCDHH will mail out by request and our Ky. State Fair Project. We have developed three options for the Fair booth. A) We would like to reserve 800 square feet and use an RV trailer as our Hard of Hearing/Deaf House. People would pass through one door and view Hearing Assistive Technology as it is used in a home before exiting a second door. This will cost around $4000. We are looking for sponsors and financial support. B) This plan would utilize a sound proof trailer in which an audiologist would administer free hearing tests. C) This is a modified plan A utilizing a 10 x 10 booth as the HOH/Deaf House.
Plan A. is our first choice. However, we have a very narrow window of opportunity to do this and we need pledges for sponsorship and finance very quickly. Contact Ed, Paula or Mary Lee for more information Watch your e-mail.
- study group met on March
25. Mary Lee Nelson, Paula Esterle and Ed Schickel attended for Derbytown SHHH.
Six issues were added to the group’s proposal:
Issue #1. Outreach (public relations): Identifies ways the Commission can provide information regarding services to the Hard of Hearing community.
Issue #2: Identify marketing strategies for Hard of Hearing with audiologists.
Issue #3: Inclusion of Hard of Hearing in projects that are sponsored by the Commission.
Issue #4: How to improve communication with Hard of Hearing individuals at the Commission Office.
Issue #5: Change the name of the TTY Distribution Program to the Telecommunication Access Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Issue #6: Web-site changes to continue to ensure information for the hard of hearing is included and updated.
These issues were discussed in an open public forum held at Piccadilly’s on Saturday March 27. The study group welcomes additional feedback from you. Contact the KCDHH office, Anita Dowd, to voice your feelings and suggestions.
- Indiana Captioned Telephones are available contact J V vanManen. -Reva
or Bob Stuckey can give you the PO address.
Hamilton Relay is still negotiating about KY Cap-Tels. KCDHH is not yet accepting applications. Ask Drew Weldon when he presents on June 8.
Our summer picnic is still pending
Paws with a Purpose may be contacted at 897-3131