Hearing Loss Association of America
Albuquerque Chapter
Helping People Communicate
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About Us
Improving Peoples Life
Our purpose is to improve the life of people with hearing loss. We do that by providing information to our members, to regulatory agencies, legislative bodies, and providers
We hold regular meetings once a month from September through June with a informative guest speakers or where we share experiences and knowledge with others.
We publish an informative newsletter each month.
We are affiliated with the National Hearing Loss Association of America and Loop New Mexico
We publish important information for people with hearing loss.
Watch the September 17th Meeting Video with
Maddie Hickel
My Experience Losing My Hearing
Guest speaker Mathew "Maddie" Hickel is a 63 year old, University of New Mexico Interdisciplinary alumni. He has spet 30 years as a registered nurse. In a tramatic turn of events, Maddie lost his hearing three years ago. Maddie shared his story of this experience.
Go to our "Resources" Page for more videos of previous meetings
We apologize for the techical difficulties we had with the September meeting. We were test driving our new hybrid meeting approach, where we both have in person attendees and Zoom participants. We discovered technical problems with our first try and will do another test for our October meeting - which will be a Zoom Meeting for our members.
Our Next Meeting is Oct 15, 2022
10:00 am MDT
It will be a Zoom Meeting
Olivia Fadul will be presenting the ABCs of Listening Skills for Hearing Loss: Navigating after 2020. This program is aimed to provide research, life experiences and best practices for those living with hearing loss.
Olivia joined the Hearing Loss Association of America’s (HLAA) - Albuquerque (ABQ) chapter in August 2021. She now serves as HLAA-ABQ program chair. Fadul, who has lived with hearing loss since age 5, considers herself an advocate for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH). In Jan 2022, Fadul founded the University of New Mexico DHH Support group. Her dream is to expand DHH support groups for College Age individuals. Currently, Fadul is a Counselor Education and Supervision doctoral student focusing on DHH mental health and disabilities. She is working towards training and educating mental health, private, school, and career counselors on best practices on working with DHH and disability clients. In addition to that, Fadul’s passion is universal design for those living with disabilities. She believes it will improve the quality of life not only for those living with disabilities, but also for all individuals
Zoom Link for Meeting will be posted here
In the future, we will be having "Hybrid" meetings -
Both "In Person" and using Zoom
The "In Person" meetings, will be held at
Los Altos Christian Church
11900 Haines Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM
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Meetings will include Captioning
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Meetings will include Sign Language Interpreters
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In Person meetings are "Looped"
Read the Wired for Sound Newsletter
Providing Valuable Information
October 2022 Issue
The monthly newsletter is mailed or emailed to members The newsletter is a must read for people who want to be informed about how to deal with hard of hearing challenges.
Providing Information
Our "Resources" page has a wide variety of information ranging from Guidelines for Purchasing Hearing Aids to Medicines That Can Effect Your Hearing AND vidios of most of our informative Zoom meetings.
Tired of not being able to hear when you eat out!
YOU CAN HELP SOLVE THIS PROBLEM!
We encourage you to use the following smartphone application to both (1) measure the noise level at venues (restaurants, cafes, coffee/tea shops, bars) that you frequent and (2) search for quiet venues (where there are adequate measurements).
Check out this smartphone app!
Soundprint - Available for Android Devices or iPhone
OR
Contribute - No Cost to You
Smith’s Community Rewards
Shop at Smith’s with their Rewards card, and Smith’s will make a donation to HLAA Albuquerque chapter. You get your usual rewards points.
Call (888) 444-8081, choose "Option 3" to sign up or re-enroll. Ask for "Hearing Loss Association Of America - Albuquerque Chapter". The "Not for Profit Organization" number for Smith’s is NC419.
Get In Touch
Email us and we will add you to our email list for notifications of meetings and Newsletter updates.
Become A Member
Your membership helps people with hearing loss. There are no paid staff and all the dues are used to fund continued member meetings and monthly newsletters
