- For those readers who don’t know the entire alphabet soup of acronyms particular to deaf and hard of hearing persons, HLAA stands for Hearing Loss Association of America. It was formerly known as Self Help for Hard of Hearing People. And please know that you’re not alone; new words and acronyms keep getting added all the time!
- “Tall Guy” found me and sent me an email! The man who gave me printed copies of slides for the Research Symposium is Richard Neely of Dallas, Texas. I sure hope he comes to Milwaukee next year.
- Gallaudet University was conducting two studies during the conference. One was on texting in live conversation and the second was to study video cell phones for lipreading. Don’t those sound exciting? I talked with Dr. Judy Harkins as she was recruiting people at a table in the registration area, and later spent some precious minutes with Paula Tucker during her lunch break. It’s awesome to reflect on the last 20 years and realize how instrumental Gallaudet’s research has been to advances in our telecommunications and media access.
- Elvis was in the building and lots of people spotted him. They’ll be able to prove it too, with the free picture they taken with him at the Sprint Relay Exhibit. I saw him again at the Cochlear exhibit, or were my eyes deceiving me?
- Speaking of pictures, Abbie Cranmer (waving)wrote an HLAA convention blog starting on June 17. There are lots of photos, exhibits and events she covered. The final blog is at http://hlaaconvention.blogspot.com/, and if you go to the end you can click on Older Posts for links that will take you to her previous entries.
- I discovered on this trip that airports are much more fun. Now that the new air travel access regulations are in effect, it was great to see captioning on most televisions as I walked through the terminals.
See more of Cheryl Heppner reports of the 2009 Hearing Loss Association of America Convention at NVRC.
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