Advocacy in Education:

Resources for Parents of Children with Hearing Loss.

Presented by the Board of Directors and the Albany Chapter of HLAA-NYS -

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Donna Wayner

Donna is the president and CEO of Hear Again, and the former director of the hearing center at the Albany Medical Center. She is a founder of, and professional advisor to, the Albany chapter of HLAA, and a consultant to our HLAA-NYS board.

Donna made available copies of many different informational materials on communication strategies, assistive devices, suggestions for teachers helping students in the classroom, and for speech pathologists helping their clients with hearing loss, plus contact information for CART reporters and sign language interpreters.

Copies of Dr. Wayner’s book “Hearing and Learning- a Guide to Helping Children” were raffled off to nine lucky winners.

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A new president for HLAA-NYS

Newly elected president, JoAnne Spoto Decker, introduced the first in a new series of public informational sessions, sponsored by the Board of Directors of HLAA-NYS, in conjunction with chapters around the state.

Last year, the Board voted to take our meetings on the road and combine them with a presentation and forum, open to all residents of the state of NY with an interest in hearing loss. Hosted by the Albany chapter, this first session was such a success that in the summer we will take our “traveling show” to the northern part of the state, and in the fall to the southern part of the state.

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Isabella's law

Isabella Fager is a 6-year-old little girl from New York with a severe hearing impairment and currently her parents are forced to pay for her hearing aids out of their own pockets.

In the event that Isabella's parents and other parents in their position could not afford the thousands of dollars needed to purchase hearing aids, Isabella may have never had the chance to learn how to speak or be able to hear her mom and dad tell her that they love her.

This bill is especially important because children out-grow hearing aids frequently and in cases of children with progressive hearing loss, they will require stronger hearing aids as time goes on, making replacement hearing aids necessary and costly to the parents.

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