Calendar: September: Speaker’s Meeting
Sept. 14 Jill E Preminger, Ph.D. from the University of Louisville School of Medicine will present new advances in hearing aids. This should be an excellent presentation. Please plan to attend. In addition, we have invited many of our fair booth visitors. We hope to have a large turnout. We will depend heavily on our current members to help great and welcome all new members. Help will be needed to register new members and to pass out our Newcomers’ folders. Please plan to come early. September 5 Deaf Festival KCDHH and KAD are sponsoring a Deafestival at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, 501 West Main St. Although this is titled Deafestival, it will offer programs of interest to HOH people as well as those interested in learning about Deaf Culture. There will be a Hearing Assistive Technology House and a panel on HOH issues, as well as a visual art show, theater, stories, poetry, and a children's corner. The hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. On September 4, Louisville Metro is sponsoring World Fest on the belvedere from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., so there is plenty to do downtown this Labor Day weekend.
Sept. 25. The 8 p.m. performance of "Miss Saigon" will be captioned at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, 501 West Main St. To purchase tickets, call the Access Hotline at 562-0111 or 562-0140 TTY, or call the Kentucky Center Ticket Service at 584-7777 or 562-0730 TTY. Be sure to mention that you need captioning when you order your tickets. Does anyone want to organize a group outing?
October 9 The 8 p.m. performance of "Cats" will be captioned at the Louisville Palace, 625 S. Fourth St. The box office is open from 9am - 5pm Monday through Friday and 2 hours prior to any scheduled event. Tickets can be purchased in person at the box office (cash or credit card), or any Ticketmaster outlet, including most local Kroger Stores (cash only), online at Ticketmaster, or charged by phone (credit cards only) at 361-3100. Again, be sure to mention that you need captioning.
September 26 & 27 Open Captioned Movie "The Manchurian Candidate" will be shown with open captions at Stonybrook Cinemas, 2745 S. Hurstbourne Pkwy. We hope to get a lot of people in the theater for this movie, as it has gotten excellent reviews. Times will be announced later via email. Or go to movie times a few days prior to the movie dates.
Sept. 25th Informal Dinner at Piccadilly’s 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.
Sign Language Do you want to learn sign language as a back-up to your hearing aids? Please contact Paula Esterle (her contact information is on the last page of this newsletter) if you are interested in our sign language practice group. We will not meet again until a sufficient number sign up. 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 and no formal instructor. We meet in Room 216 at Harvey Browne Presbyterian Church, 311 Browns Lane, at 7 p.m. on the first, third and fourth Mondays of each month.
Recent Events Summer Picnic In spite of the unseasonably cool weather our summer picnic was a wonderful success. Thanks Hazel, Judy and crew.
August 19 to 29 Kentucky State Fair: If you missed us at the state fair, you missed a wonderful booth. We spoke with more than 500 fair goers about Hearing Assistive Technology and we invited many of them to our Sept. and Oct. meetings. We want to thank all of our donors and volunteers for their great efforts. Because of you, many people are now aware of Hearing Assistive Technology and many more are rethinking about hearing aids. You are special. I would like all volunteers to think back over the fair and send Mary Lee your special stories about the booth and the fair goers.
Our new By-Laws have passed and are in the mail to National. I want to thank all of the Board members for their efforts and time to make the new By-Laws possible.
Benefits of SHHH Membership
- 1. Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. is THE voice for all people with hearing loss. (A large constituency gives them credibility and contacts.)
- 2. Information is brought to members through Hearing Loss: The Journal of Self Help for Hard of Hearing People.
- 3. The National Convention provides education and access to vendors and exhibitors.
- 4. Support through local chapters and online information.
- 5. Discounts on books, resource materials, convention fees and special promotions
- 6. Advocacy efforts
- 7. Surveys, courses and special events.
- 8. Fellowship and support.
- 9. Personal Networking. What SHHH is doing for you.
Thanks: We have so many people to thank this month because of the special donors and fair volunteers. It is impossible to name everyone. One could not imagine the impact our booth has had. It was a privilege to see people’s faces when they heard the TV or a family members voice so clearly. You have been a blessing for someone. Thank you
Other News
KCDHH See the KCDHH web site for the minutes. Ed attended on behalf of Derbytown.
Newcomers 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 Magruderand Mary Lee Nelson to be placed on our e-mail list.
Kentucky CAP-TEL KCDHH is now accepting applications for Cap-Tel in KY. 1-800-372-2907 (V/TTY)
Indiana Captioned Telephones are available. Reva or Bob Stuckey can give you the address.
The University of Louisville Program in Audiology is conducting research on audiologic rehabilitation in adults with hearing loss who wear hearing aids. Audiologic rehabilitation involves training in speechreading (lipreading, auditory listening,and communication strategies. Most people with hearing loss do not use all of the strategies available to them to improve their listening. As part of a research program, we will be offering FREE group audiologic rehabilitation classes. We are looking for participants with the following characteristics:
- Ø1 Participants must be between the ages of 55 and 75
- Ø2 All participants must wear two hearing aids with at least six months experience.
- Ø3 Participants must have normal or corrected vision of at least 20/40.
- Ø4 Participants must not currently have active ear disease (i.e. ear infection).
- Ø5 A few other screenings will be performed at the first visit to determine if the prospective participant will qualify for the study.
If you have any questions, or if you are interested in participating, please contact Jen Leddy at 502-852-3990. or Jill Preminger, Ph.D. University of Louisville, School of Medicine Myers Hall Louisville, KY 40292 (502) 852-7691.
Hearing Health article
For an interesting article on services your audiologist can provide for you to help you adjust and maximize your use of hearing aids, go to Hearing Aid Rehabilitation: Value-Added Aspects of True Hearing Care Max Stanley Chartrand, Ph.D.