Say What Club Convention – Day Five

This is the last in my series on conventions I attended this summer. Over this past summer I’ve come to realize how much I crave real-life interaction with other people with hearing loss. I hope to become more involved with the local HH/deaf activities in my area, as my work schedule allows. I want to [...]

SWC Convention – Day Three

In the morning we had workshops. Usually convention hotels provide “breakfast” in the form of rolls, fruit and coffee or tea for those attending meetings. I managed to find a yogurt and a sliver of honeydew melon before everything ran out. Many complained about the skimpiness of our ‘breakfast’, and I’m happy to say our [...]

City of Brotherly Love and Saying What

I didn’t realize until Sunday night that I was flying out in less than 24 hours. The plan had been to fly from Seattle to Philly together with Lorne Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning. Eric was going to drive us, and Lorne planned to leave his car at our house. We bought our tickets on-line at [...]

IFHOH Day Three, Part II

Day three– part II
The first workshop we attended Friday was called Accessibility Awareness Collaboration and Hard-of-Hearing People given by Sami Virtanen from the Finnish Federation of Hard-of-Hearing People. Like the the real-time text workshop, I found it exceedingly difficult to pay attention. Tired of reading CART, and feeling full from the large lunch I nearly [...]

IFHOH–Day 3, Part I

IFHOH Day Three. SideKicks in Canada? Public loops? Real-time text? In the interest of making each of my posts a little shorter and more readable, I have decided to post about IFHOH in smaller segments.
Friday, we made it to the Wall Center just in time for a quick coffee and lunch! None of the morning [...]