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Join NVRC's Bonnie O'Leary and Debbie Jones for their three-part Zoom series: “I Can’t Hear You!”

This FREE Zoom series will be presented over 3 weeks:

Part I - Wednesday, February 21, 7 PM
Do I Have a Hearing Loss? What Can I do About it?

Part II - Wednesday, February 28, 7 PM
“Techie Stuff” to the Rescue!

Part III - Wednesday, March 6, 7 PM
Living with Hearing Loss

Captioning will be provided for each presentation. If you need additional accommodations, please contact Cheryl Gault at cgault@nvrc.org.

Click below to register for each of the presentations you wish to attend:

Register for Feb 21 - Do I Have a Hearing Loss? What Can I do About it?
Register for Feb 28 - “Techie Stuff” to the Rescue!
Register for Mar 6 - Living with Hearing Loss

Click here to download "I Can't Hear You" flyer

NVRC is a non-profit. No sales are ever involved.


Thank you to everyone who donated to NVRC during our #GivingTuesday campaign!

We did not reach our goal, but you helped us raise $960 towards keeping NVRC connected so we can continue to serve our Communities!

#GivingTuesday is a once a year, global day of generosity, but NVRC needs your support year-round!

As we head into the Season of Giving, please keep NVRC on your list for Holiday Giving!

#ThankYouWednesday

Join NVRC's Board and Staff for our Annual Breakfast and Meeting!

Date: Saturday, December 9
Time: 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Location: NVRC, 10467 White Granite Drive, Suite 312, Oakton, VA 22124

Light continental breakfast will be provided. ASL interpreters and captioning are provided.

See the flyer in PDF.

Please RSVP to attend the NVRC Annual Meeting.

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Dr. Amy Bernstein, Au.D.

Monday, May 1, 2023 7 – 8 pm via ZOOM

Live captioning & ASL interpreting are provided

In this program, Dr. Bernstein will be discussing:

  • The differences between over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids and prescription hearing aids in terms of candidates, products, services, warranties, and price
  • The significance of a hearing test (whether someone plans to purchase OTC or prescription hearing aids)
  • The impact of hearing on cognitive function

Amy Bernstein, Au.D., FAAA has a Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.) from the University of Memphis. She has written articles, conducted presentations, and been interviewed on several hearing-aid-related topics, including the topic of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. Dr. Bernstein specializes in personalizing hearing aid fittings in a way that accounts for the individual’s hearing loss, environment, lifestyle, and personal preferences. She also specializes in fitting custom earpieces for musicians. As a musically-trained individual and lover of music herself, Dr. Bernstein enjoys teaching her patients about hearing protection and ways to prevent hearing loss. She holds licenses in audiology and hearing aid dispensing in Virginia.

OTC vs. Prescription Hearing Aids flyer

Walk 4 Hearing Logo

What:  HLAA Walk4Hearing
When:  Saturday, October 15, 2022
Time:  9:00 AM EST
Where:  National Harbor - Capital Canopy, 150 National Plaza, Oxon Hill, MD

Schedule:
9 AM - Registration Starts
10:00 AM - Stage Presentation
10:15 AM - Walk Starts (5K/3.1 miles)

Join TEAM NVRC!

The portrait of Lise Hamlin, a smiling woman with glasses
Lise Hamlin, Director of Public Policy, Hearing Loss Association of America

Tuesday, October 4, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 pm ET via Zoom

HLAA has been on the forefront of advocating for greater access to lower cost hearing health care and hearing devices for years. With the advent of Over-the-Counter hearing aids for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss, we are finally seeing the results of years of work with hearing health professionals, policy makers, federal regulators, and industry. But with as with any great change, we are also seeing confusion and concern about what the future holds.

In this presentation, Lise will provide background on HLAA, information about over the counter hearing aids and the FDA regulation of this new category of hearing aids, and what you should know before you purchase these hearing aids. She’ll also touch on what it will mean to people who still need to rely on traditional hearing aids.


Lise Hamlin joined the HLAA national staff as director of public policy in April 2008. Lise, who has a hearing loss herself, has worked as an advocate for people with hearing loss for more than 25 years. She currently represents HLAA on federal advisory committees, industry advisory groups, and consumer coalitions. In 2019 she received TDI’s Karen Peltz Strauss Award Public Policy Award and has been recognized with the Oticon Focus on People award, a Spirit of SHHH Award and the F. Michael Taff award from the Human Rights Commission of Rockville, Maryland.

View the flyer

ASL interpreters and live captioning will be provided. To request for such accommodations, please contact info@nvrc.org

Photograph of Antoinette Allen, MA, CCC-SLP

NVRC invites you to join us!

When: Saturday, February 26, 10:00 to 11:00 AM
Topic: An Integrated Approach to Aural Rehabilitation (AR)
Presenter: Antoinette Allen, M.A., CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist/Aural Rehabilitationist, A-S-A Speech-Language-Hearing Therapies, LLC

This program will discuss an integrated and functional approach to aural rehabilitation, which enhances and supports communication in adults with hearing loss.

Interpreters and CART will be provided.

Please Register.

WHEN: Saturday, February 26
TIME: 10 AM to 11 AM

Presenter: Antoinette Allen, M.A., CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist/Aural Rehabilitationist
A-S-A Speech-Language-Hearing Therapies, LLC

This program will discuss an integrated and functional approach to aural rehabilitation, which enhances and supports communication in adults with hearing loss.

Interpreters and CART will be provided.

Please Register.

photo of NVRC brochure and an iPad with headphones showing the Starkey SoundCheck app.

Would you like to have your hearing screened? Our one-on-one screenings at NVRC use the Starkey SoundCheck iPad program, and they take about 6 minutes. We schedule 30 minutes per person to be sure there is additional time for questions and concerns, and to provide resource information as necessary. The purpose of the screening is to see if you could benefit from having your hearing evaluated by an audiologist.

NVRC provides objective information, no sales are ever involved. If you would like to set up a screening, please contact our Outreach Manager, Bonnie O'Leary, for your session. Her email is boleary@nvrc.org.

Virtual Celebrate Communication 2021
Dec. 4, 2021 • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Celebrate Communication is the area's premier information fair for anyone with an interest in or connection to hearing loss.  This year it will be a virtual event with a spotlight on supporting businesses owned by people who are deaf or hard of hearing!  People like YOU!

Deaf and hard of hearing business owners, Artists & Crafters will be provided the opportunity, at no cost, to promote their businesses. Information will be included in the December 4 event presented at 10:00 to 11:30 AM, and then archived on the Celebrate Communication website for up to one year.


Your options are as follows:

  • Record a video message about their business, crafts, or art
    and/or
  • Describe the business in text, and  share images of their product(s), their webpage, and any contact information for patrons to purchase goods and services.

Virtual recording presentation options

Presentations will be pre-recorded

  1. Presenter can provide their own video recorded presentation (ASL and/or spoken)
    • MP4 video file format
    • Horizontal 720 HDMI
    • 2 to 6 minute in length 
  2. Record video with NVRC staff assistance (virtual or in-person at NVRC office)
  3. Provide written description and photographs of items to be made into video slideshows by NVRC staff. (Ideal for artists or crafters)

(We will help you if you need assistance!  Presentations will be interpreted and captions added as needed by NVRC.)

Deadline to submit your presentation videos is Monday November 8, 2021.

Deaf and hard of hearing-owned businesses that wish to be included in this year's virtual event at no charge to you, please contact Cheryl Gault -  cgault@nvrc.org for more information and questions.

For questions about recording or to send video or other presentation files contact:
Bruce Greenfield -  bgreenfield@nvrc.org

If you wish to donate a door prize for the event, please do! This is not a requirement though. Thank you. 

DOWNLOAD Information Letter (PDF)

To learn more about the Celebrate Communication 2021 & sponsor opportunities go to:
https://nvrc.org/celebrate-communication/

 

 

Date:
October 18, 2016
Source:
University of Maryland
Summary:
The reason you may have to say something twice when talking to older family members at Thanksgiving dinner may not be because of their hearing. Researchers have determined that something is going on in the brains of typical older adults that causes them to struggle to follow speech amidst background noise, even when their hearing would be considered normal on a clinical assessment.
"Could you repeat that?" The reason you may have to say something twice when talking to older family members at Thanksgiving dinner may not be because of their hearing. Researchers at the University of Maryland have determined that something is going on in the brains of typical older adults that causes them to struggle to follow speech amidst background noise, even when their hearing would be considered normal on a clinical assessment.
In an interdisciplinary study published by the Journal of Neurophysiology, researchers Samira Anderson, Jonathan Z. Simon, and Alessandro Presacco found that adults aged 61-73 with normal hearing scored significantly worse on speech understanding in noisy environments than adults aged 18-30 with normal hearing. The researchers are all associated with the UMD's Brain and Behavior Initiative.
Read more  . . .  it's your brain

 

 

Psychology Today
Sept 30, 2016
by Michelle Carr

It’s often thought that when one sensory modality is weakened, the other senses become more attuned to compensate. For example, someone with significant hearing loss may then be more visually sensitive. One recent study set out to investigate whether this sort of compensation might also occur during dreams. Do individuals with hearing loss experience more visual dreams? And what about their hearing, do they struggle with comprehension or confusion even in sleep?

In the past, researchers have compared the dream content of hearing loss vs. hearing individuals with conflicting results. For example, Mendelson, Siger, and Solomon (1960) conducted interviews on dreams with participants with congenital deafness, hearing loss acquired before five years, and hearing loss acquired later. They found that several facets of dream experience were amplified in the congenital hearing loss group, including: dream recall frequency, color, vividness and spatial depth.

Read more  . . . Dreams

 

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Saturday, November 12  • 10am – noon

The Impact of Hearing Loss on Dementia and Healthy Aging

Nicholas S. Reed, AuD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Recent studies have shown the relationship between hearing loss and several other health- related issues such as cognitive decline (dementia) and increased hospitalizations. Based on the results of these studies, Dr. Reed will discuss how hearing loss clinically impacts the everyday health and functioning of older adults and how hearing devices and communication strategies can help.

Open captioning and on‐site sign language interpreting services will be provided for this NVRC event. Other reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. Requests for such accommodations should be submitted via e‐mail to info@nvrc.org

Reserve Your Seat  for this free event Click Here

DOWNLOAD – Impact-of-HL-on-dementia_flyer-111216

Location of Event –
Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Persons
3951 Pender Drive,  Suite 130, Fairfax, VA 22030


ONLINE Webinar - Oct. 12, 2016, 4:00- 5:00 PM EDT

Evidence-based Strategies for Teaching Listening and Spoken Language Skills to Preschoolers with Hearing Loss

provided by Outreach Services, VSDB
Presenters:
  Sharon Raver-Lampman, Ph.D. and  Janet Knust, M.S., LSLS Cert. AV Ed

Please register for the “Evidence-based Strategies for Teaching Listening and Spoken Language Skills to Preschoolers with Hearing Loss” webinar at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4889239414887696898

Presenters:  Old Dominion University and the Norfolk Public Schools collaborate to provide an oral preschool program in a classroom at ODU in Norfolk, VA.   Sharon Raver-Lampman, Ph.D., is the Faculty Director of Research for the Old Dominion University/Norfolk Public Schools Oral Preschool Program for Children with Hearing Loss; Janet Knust, M.S. LSLS Cert. AV Ed is the Program Director and Teacher for this program.

Webinar Description:  The ODU/Norfolk Public Schools’ Oral Preschool Program offers a unique opportunity for the study of evidence-based practice and consequent implementation of research findings in the classroom!  Presenters will share insights gained from a series of research studies conducted to improve vocabulary development, syntactical skills, pragmatics, and socio-communication skills, then will provide practical tips for teachers, parents, and related service providers using social stories, modified story books, and other strategies to help children achieve targeted skills.

Target Audience: Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Early Childhood Educators, Early Intervention Providers and Speech/Language Pathologists working with children with hearing loss; and parents.

This Webinar is sponsored by Outreach Services, Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind in Staunton, through grant funding from the Virginia Department of Education.  Questions should be directed to Dr. Debbie Pfeiffer at Debbie.Pfeiffer@vsdb.k12.va.us.

After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with connection information for joining the webinar.