Volume 30 Issue 9

HOH-LD-News
Vol. 30, Issue 9
March 3, 2007

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Table of Contents
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- Article 1: Hearing Loss Advocacy Panel - Part 2

- Article 2: State of the Science on Aural Rehabilitation - Part 5

- Article 3: Gallaudet Statement on Accreditation

- Article 4: Short Takes

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- Article 1: Hearing Loss Advocacy Panel - Part 2
Moderated by Jane Schlau
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Here are some of the national hearing loss advocacy leaders with their thoughts about advocacy. You'll hear from Karen Keefe, Alan Hurwitz, Terry Portis, and Claude Stout.

This article is part of our coverage of the 2006 ALDA National Convention (ALDAcon). For more coverage of this great convention, please point your browser to http://www.hearinglossweb.com/res/hlorg/alda/cn/2006/2006.htm

This is part two of two parts.

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3. Tell us about a funny or touching experience that has happened to you as an advocate.

Alan Hurwitz

I was president of our alumni association, and I was running a meeting. We were thinking about raising dues. I was trying to follow parliamentary procedure, and there were amendments, and amendments to the amendments, and still more amendments to those. The whole think was hopelessly confused.

Then a wise elderly man named Joe Smith raised his hand and asked for a recess. Then he came to me and asked to speak to me privately. He suggested that we first vote on whether or not to raise dues. If we decided to raise them, we should then vote on how big the raise should be, and finally on when it should go into effect. He showed me how to solve what seemed like a hopelessly complex problem. But more important than that, he showed me how to provide feedback in a very tactful and supportive manner.

Claude Stout

An awkward moment for me occurred when I was at Gallaudet and I was the flag bearer for a ceremony that included the Vice President of the United States. I was carrying the flag when the pole broke! As you know, the flag isn't supposed to touch the ground, so I was frantic to make sure that didn't happen. And the Vice President himself came over to help me get things back in order!

Karen Keefe

The first time I went to testify at the State House I was so nervous. I was standing there in front of ten or twelve very important people. The Speaker knew I was nervous, so he called me over and told me to imagine that they were all naked. I did, and that really worked for me!

Terry Portis

I have a recent story that was scary and then became not so scary. Last September 11 I was on the Metro, and one of the armed officers came through with a bomb-sniffing dog. He approached a woman near me and asked to examine her bag, because the dog had alerted on it.

So I'm thinking how HLAA will notify all the chapters that the Executive Director had been killed in a bomb explosion as the woman emptied her bag. The last thing in it was a ham biscuit, which is what the dog had alerted on!

4. Do you have any last thoughts you'd like to share with us?

Claude Stout

The thing that has kept me going through good times and bad is passion. The most important thing is to report something that you think is wrong. It can be at the local, state, or federal level. But it's so important to be part of the process. We can get a lot of things done if we all work together.

Karen Keefe

I just want to say that each of us can do what needs to be done. Don't wait for others to do it, and don't wait for some organization to do it. Get off your butts and do it yourselves!

Terry Portis

The thing that drives me is seeing what happened to my wife and to me when she started losing her hearing - how isolated and depressed she became and how it affected us. But we need to remember that for each person we help, there are hundreds that need help and don't get it. So let's get out there and help everyone who needs it!

Alan Hurwitz

I think the key is that anyone can advocate. My wife is actually the best advocate in our family. I remember one time she bought a box of candy, and when she opened it, it was empty! I would have just let it go, but she wrote a letter to the company, and they sent her a whole case of candy! The lesson is that nothing happens if you don't take action!

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- Article 2: State of the Science on Aural Rehabilitation - Part 5
by Mark Ross, Ph.D.
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Editor: What do you think of when you hear the term "aural rehabilitation"? If you don't really quite know what it means, you're not alone. And that's an unfortunate thing, because aural rehabilitation is very important to people with hearing loss.

Here's Mark Ross' discussion of the recent "State of the Science on Aural Rehabilitation" conference. This article first appeared in Hearing Loss Magazine (January/February 2007), and is reprinted with the author's kind permission.

This is part five of five parts.

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Various types of group AR programs were directly compared in a project presented by Jill Preminger. This was a very ambitious undertaking that attempted to determine the relative effectiveness of various types of AR programs and to see if any benefit was related to the personal characteristics of the participants. These group programs included structured discussions on emotional aspects of hearing loss, exercises in auditory and auditory-visual perception, communication strategies training, and informational lectures. Different groups of individuals received some combinations of these programs. The results (as measured via several subjective scales) did not demonstrate "robust" differences between the training groups and the control group. However, some individuals did appear to benefit from the training as measured by a clinically significant change on the self-assessment scale used in the study. The challenge is to determine who can benefit most from such training, what combination of procedures to apply, and to develop sensitive and appropriate measures to document any possible changes. It is studies like this that will ultimately lead the way to more refined AR procedures, as we define what does not work as well as what does work.

Among the other features of this conference was a full day devoted to the issue of people with dual sensory hearing loss. This is the first time I've attended a conference in which this topic was addressed at all, much less for a full day. In our focus on hearing, it is easy to forget that many people with hearing loss can also exhibit other difficulties (e.g., visual problems, arthritis). These other conditions may, depending upon their severity, impact upon the rehabilitative process in a number of ways. For example, if someone is unable to manipulate a volume control or a telephone switch, then hearing aids that function automatically in controlling the loudness of the sounds or in accessing the telephone will be required. Or telephones with large number dials would be necessary for those who have visual impairments.

In our focus on the auditory channel (hearing aids, assistive listening devices, auditory training), it is sometimes easy to overlook the vital contribution of vision to the communicative process. For people whose major avenue of communication is vision, then such apparently obvious requirements as the lighting level in the room, distance from the person talking or the screen, and line of sight become critical elements in the communicative process. For those whose primary avenue of communication is audition, the added information provided by the visual sense can range - from helpful to critical.

We've known for many years that people understand speech much better when they can both hear and see a speaker. Whether or not they think they are speechreading, they are to some extent. It doesn't matter which of the modalities is the primary one for a particular person: the contribution of the other modality will increase the total recognition score. For example, as Boothroyd demonstrated in his presentation, audition will increase speech perception even if only the fundamental frequency of a speaker's voice (artificially extracted, of course) is heard. It is not possible to understand any words with such limited acoustic information, but when combined with speechreading the scores increase beyond those obtained with speechreading alone. The reverse is also true and has been demonstrated time and again. A person may obtain a very poor speechreading- alone speech recognition score; but when combined with audition, the total score will exceed (sometimes far exceed) that obtained with audition alone. In short, anyone engaged in the AR process must be sensitive to the presence of visual conditions, whether mild or severe, that may co-exist with the hearing loss. These can include age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, and retinitis pigmentosa.

In truth, AR involves much more than scientific studies and expositions (necessary as they are); it also requires a commitment by the professionals who are responsible for carrying it out. And it cannot be a token or superficial commitment; they have to truly believe in the efficacy of an AR program. Given this commitment, there are a number of things that they can and should do, even within the constraints imposed by economic reality ("time is money"). They can encourage and assist their clients in acquiring and implementing a self-administered training program; in addition to the ones described above, there are a number of others as well. In their hearing aid practice, they can include and strongly encourage their clients to participate in a short-term three- or four-session hearing aid follow-up program, one that is defined as a routine component of the overall hearing aid dispensing process. This suggestion is in accord with HLAA's position on Group HA Orientation Programs. From a purely business perspective, such a program would be a way to build customer loyalty, increase awareness and sales of other types of hearing assistive technologies, and forestall many time-consuming individual "drop-ins." And, frankly, given the current cost of an average set of modern binaural hearing aids, if there were an added expense, it could well be absorbed by the hearing aid dispenser.

I believe that the provision and acceptance of AR fundamentally requires that our society, all of us, understand and treat the reality of a hearing loss with understanding and respect, and not as an occasion to make bad jokes. And, unfortunately, we still have a long way to go in this regard, though I do think that conferences such as the State of the Science Conference on Aural Rehabilitation are an effective way to proceed.

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- Article 3: Gallaudet Statement on Accreditation
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Editor: You may have seen that there's been some concern about Gallaudet University's accreditation. Here's their statement on this issue.

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February 2007

Gallaudet University is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSCHE).

Accreditation by the Commission follows intensive self-study by the University itself. There is then a site visit and report from the Commission. The cycle of accreditation follows a ten-year cycle, and Gallaudet, which was initially accredited by MSCHE in 1957, last underwent a full re-accreditation in 2001. At the mid-point of the accreditation cycle, the University must submit a Periodic Review Report (PRR) to the Commission, which is followed by a decision on reaffirmation of accreditation for the remaining 5 years of the cycle. Gallaudet submitted its PRR to MSCHE in June of 2006.

Following submission of its PRR, Gallaudet experienced a period of protests and a brief closure of its campus following selection of a new president. The contract of the president-designate was subsequently rescinded by the Gallaudet Board and an interim president, Dr. Robert Davila, was appointed and took office on January 1, 2007. Because of issues that were raised during the protest and what MSCHE felt were inadequacies in the University's PRR, the Commission decided to postpone its decision on reaccreditation pending receipt of additional information from the University addressing concerns that were communicated to Gallaudet by MSCHE.

Gallaudet is currently working closely with MSCHE to compile and submit the information that MSCHE has requested, and the University expects to submit a report by the end of March or in early April. The Commission on Higher Education will act with respect to reaffirmation of accreditation following receipt of that report. In the meantime, Gallaudet University and its programs are fully accredited.

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Editor: Here are our picks of some additional stories that you may find interesting. For more, please point your browser to: http://www.hearinglossweb.com/news/curr.htm

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Music as an Input to a Hearing Aid

Music as an input to a hearing aid poses some interesting problems both for the hearing aid design engineer and for the hearing health-care professional. The following discussion equally concerns the fitting of hearing aids for musicians, as well as for those non-musicians who like to listen to music. In many cases, as will be seen, the question really is "which hearing aid manufacturer would be willing to make subtle changes for individual customers?", rather than "what is the best set of electro-acoustic parameters for users who listen to music?" In order to understand the programming and internal algorithm changes necessary for music as an input to a hearing aid or a cochlear implant, four primary, physical differences between speech and music need to be understood.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/25xo9w

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Communication and Hearing Protector System Helps Warfighters

Developmental testing involving two Air Force Research Lab technical directorates has helped the Army's Rapid Equipping Force equip and assess improved communication and hearing protection systems for deployed forces. Known as QuietPro(tm), the lightweight technology protects against acoustic trauma -- injury to the hearing mechanisms within the inner ear caused by excessively loud noises (such as explosions). The system will enhance military operations and make hostile environments less dangerous for U.S. ground forces.

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Few DVD players can decode closed captioning

Manufacturers of DVD players aren't listening to the hearing impaired. How else to explain why so few DVD players decode closed captioning built into movie discs? Even though federal law requires televisions with screens 13 inches or larger to include closed-caption decoding, there is no such mandate for DVD players. . . . . For many people, basic subtitles are enough. But there's a distinction. Where subtitles display only the spoken word, closed captions create a full translation of the soundtrack by adding sounds. If a car screeches off-camera, you'll know it. If a phone rings or a baby cries in its crib or a rooster crows, you'll know it.

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Employment Opportunity 1
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GLAD is an Affirmative Action Employer with equal opportunity for men, women and people with disabilities. For more information on the following positions, please go to: www.gladinc.org. The status of all positions is: Regular, Full-time, Non-Exempt, Full Fringe Benefits unless otherwise noted. All positions are open until filled.

* Building Manager - Los Angeles, CA
* Regional Director - Riverside, CA
* Mexican Sign Language Interpreter - Riverside. CA
* Job Developer/Interpreter - Crenshaw, CA
* Community Advocate - Los Angeles, CA
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* Hard of Hearing Specialist (Temporary) - Los Angeles, CA
* Community Advocate (Temporary) - Riverside, CA
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If interested for any of these positions then please submit resume and application to:

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2222 Laverna Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90041
V/TDD: (323) 550-4207
Fax #: (323)550-4204
E-mail: jfetterman@gladinc.org

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Online Customer Service Representative
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We are looking for people who love working on their computers from home, have the time and the motivation to have a real career in customer service with a company offering daily challenges and a stable and secure future.

At Lunarpages Web Hosting supporting our customers in an efficient, responsive and friendly manner is our primary goal. At this time along with our phone support, we provide email support and open community forums.

We also intend to offer live chat support 24/7 and we need smart, reliable and technically savvy people. If you love spending time online, and are willing to learn all that we are willing to teach, please contact us as we would love the opportunity to interview you.

At Lunarpages we are aware that within our society there are limitations for job choices for many people due to impairments, social disorders and accessibility issues. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone and we will provide the training and support you need to excel in customer service.

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* Ability to work productively and efficiently to meet deadlines and quotas.
* Attention to detail.
* Analytical skills.
* Knowledge of customer service principles, techniques, systems and standards.
* Ability to work in a team environment.
* Internet and computer skills to include but limited to:
* General knowledge of the Internet including surfing and how to search terms using search engines such as Google.
* Operating Systems.
* Email clients.
* General knowledge of HTML Editors
* Ability to use an HTML editor a plus.
* Knowledge and ability to use Internet Browsers such as Internet Explorer, Netscape or Firefox.
* MS Office Applications: Word, Excel.
* Web forums, blogs or bulletin boards.
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Employment Opportunity 3
Various Positions
New York School for the Deaf
White Plains, NY
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New York School for the Deaf invites you to apply for the following positions:

High School Principal
Coordinator of Clinical and Support Services
Curriculum/Technology Integration Specialist
Educational Evaluator
Speech Pathologist
Athletic Director
Physical Therapist
Occupational Therapist
Parent Educator

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Employment Opportunity 4
Provost
Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
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Gallaudet University is recruiting for Provost who will serve as the academic leader of the University. The incumbent's primary focus must always be the students and the faculty; must be responsible for leading and supporting the faculty in their development of a curriculum of excellence and a dynamic environment for a learning community engaged in scholarly inquiry that addresses students' diverse needs; must be committed to promoting the highest levels of student engagement and supports faculty work that increases student engagement; serves as the chief academic officer and provides overall leadership and direction to the division of Academic Affairs, including the College for Liberal Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Graduate School and Professional Programs and Student Affairs.

REQUIRES: Earned doctorate and a record of scholarship and service commensurate with the position. Minimum of five years of successful experience in educational administration. Substantial teaching experience in higher education. Demonstrated evidence of successful organizational, management and communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to work as part of a leadership team with a commitment to shared governance. Knowledge of educational practices and trends at all levels. Knowledge of deafness and of the unique educational needs of deaf people. Demonstrated understanding of diversity issues. Fluency in American Sign Language required. Deadline: March 16, 2007.

Excellent benefits and competitive salary range. For further information, go to our web site: http://af.gallaudet.edu/hrs/hrs_job_admin.asp.

To apply, send a letter of interest, current resume and names of three references to:
Gallaudet University
Human Resources Services
800 Florida Avenue, NE
College Hall, room 106
ATTN: Job #07013
Washington, DC 20002

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Educational Institution.

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