May 20 Ed will be presenting Hearing Assistive Technology at the Purchase Area Mental Health and Aging Coalition Conference in Mayfield, Ky. on behalf of AARP and Derbytown.

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 front (above lobby).

There will be no meeting on 5/31, Memorial Day.

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.

Please consider making an extra effort to let others know about “Better Speech and Hearing”. You might consider writing a letter to the editor of one or more local papers. Take the time to talk about Hearing Loss, SHHH, KCDHH, Free Phones, TTY’s, Relay System etc. Let others know what you know.

Coming attractions: Van Helsing on June 28 and June 29

Thanks:

Reva Kruer for her work on our Dinner at Huber’s. Because only a small number were able to attend, I suggested that we consider another dinner there, perhaps during strawberry season. Suggestions/Comments??

Legislative Coalition No meeting this month

KCDHH

The Ky. Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People met this month. They agreed to continue funding the Study Group: Education, Outreach and Inclusion for Hard of Hearing.

Newcomers

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?

Indiana Captioned Telephones are available contact J V VanManen. Reva or Bob Stuckey can give you the street address.

Hamilton Relay is still negotiating about KY Cap-Tels. KCDHH is not yet filling applications. We will notify everyone as soon as they are ready to accept applications.

Paula and Hazel Tucker have suggested that we have our August Picnic at Tom Sawyer Park off Westport Road. Wednesday, August 11 or Thursday, August 12 are the dates that we are considering.

Does anyone have any questions, suggestions, or comments before we commit to a date and location?