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Heard In Fort Worth Hearing Loss Association of America - Fort Worth Chapter January 2017
NEW LOCATION
for HLAA Monthly Meeting
Saturday, January 14, 10:00 a.m. Snacks and socializing at 9:30 a.m.
Sadly, the Goodrich Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is abruptly closing, but we have arranged a temporary location for the January meeting.
We will meet around the corner from the Goodrich Center in the parish hall of St. John’s Anglican Church on Page Street, across from Daggett Elementary School.
St. John’s Church faces College Avenue, but the entrance to the parish hall is through a gate on Page St. (See photo.) Parking is on the streets in an upscale neighborhood. The hall is just behind the Westside Unitarian Church, which is on the corner of Page and Lipscomb Streets.
PROGRAM: Sertoma Club and Hearing Loss
Presented by Christopher Hetreed
Past President and Past Chairman of the Board of the Sertoma Club of Fort Worth
The Sertoma Club contributed most of the funds for our hearing loop system equipment, devices, and installation. Many other club projects assist people with hearing loss, and we believe we can work together for our mutual benefit. Chris Hetreed is an aeronautical engineer at Lockheed Martin and a graduate of Georgia Tech.
St. John’s Parish Hall
What the Closing of Goodrich
Center Means to Us and Others The director of the Goodrich Center accepted a position
with another organization. The center has been struggling
financially for some time, and its board abruptly decided to
close, leaving us to scramble for a new location.
With limited time, our HLAA chapter board found an
alternative meeting site for January, and we are deeply
grateful to St. John’s Anglican Church for opening to us.
We are seeking a permanent location, with hopes of having
one secured by February. We are open to suggestions. The
site needs to be reasonable, accessible, and amenable to
installation of our hearing loop system, among other
considerations.
Aside from the disruption of our chapter meetings, the
closing of the Goodrich Center means the loss of other
needed services for people with hearing loss or deafness.
Those services began over fifty years ago under a different
organization name and grew, at its zenith, into a social
service center offering a broad range of valued services.
Recently, those services have been limited to an activity
program for deaf senior citizens, case management, access
to a videophone for callers using sign language but are
without their own VP, and hosting our chapter meetings.
Sadly, all that is being phased out, and the center will be
closed permanently sometime this month. It’s the end of an
era and of a rich heritage in Fort Worth.
Photo Credit: The photograph of The Fort Worth Herd on our Heard In Fort Worth banner is used by permission of The Fort Worth Herd
and its sponsor, the Fort Worth Parks and Community Services Department.
David’s Discussion
The Relationship Side of Hearing Loss
With the ending of the holiday season, many of
us have spent a great deal of time in groups of
families and/or friends. I am certain that many, if
not all of us, have experienced a wide range of
emotions as we have dealt with our hearing loss
in these situations. Families and friends can be
both a support structure and a battleground at the
same time. In most of these experiences, we have
help but also hurt.
The HLAA Fort Worth Chapter, with all other
HLAA chapters, is about improving ourselves
and our environment so that we can deal better
with our hearing loss. Hearing loss is not just
about hearing aids or cochlear implants, but
deals with a large range of environmental and
human emotional aspects. Hearing loss not only
affects an individual, but also one’s family and
friends.
Our chapters are supportive organizations
nationwide, and we meet and learn together on
how to better deal with our hearing loss. It is a
safe environment for everyone, and it is okay to
not hear well!
As we set our goals for 2017, my hopes are that
each of you will have a goal not only to attend
each of our monthly meetings but that you will
participate in the chapter so that we can reach out
to others and help them in a special way. It is
said that blindness cuts us off from things but
that deafness cuts us off from people.
Relationships are extremely important, and our
goal as a chapter is to help form those
relationships with others. You can contribute to
someone’s need to better deal with their hearing
loss. You have the experience and may have
found something that helped you that can also
make a difference for another. By doing this, you
have helped yourself. In a season of gift giving,
we all know the feeling of giving is even better
that receiving.
One of this chapter’s goals is to educate. We can
learn how to improve our family environment by
helping those closest to us to better understand
our needs and feelings. By attending our
meetings and discussing the many different
facets of hearing loss, we can add constructive
efforts to better our relationships with others.
Communication is another goal of our chapter,
and it is very important because we are all social
beings. We enter this life being dependent of
others for basic survival for the first few years, if
not decades. Helping others around us better
understand the environmental issues we are
dealing with will help us and others to avoid
isolation and depression.
We pay a big price for self-imposed isolation,
and so do our family and friends who would
otherwise enjoy our companionship. This price
can be measured by cutting us off from social
connections, missing out on educational and
cultural experiences, and curtailing opportunities
to experience personal achievement and
satisfaction. This is what our chapter is all about.
By getting involved, you can help someone else,
and more importantly you can help yourself.
I look forward to seeing all of you at our chapter
meetings this year. They are all very social
events where we have the opportunity to
establish lifetime friendships in a very safe
environment that is full of fun. While having this
fun we will, most likely, learn something along
the way. It is a win-win situation for everyone
involved. I wish you the best in 2017. See you at
a meeting soon!
David Edmondson, Chapter President
Christmas Party Photos by Thomas Hindman
Support your Fort Worth chapter and newsletter.
We’ll acknowledge your donations in the newsletter each month this year.
Platinum = $400+; Gold = $200 to $399; Silver = $100 to $199; Bronze = $50 to $99; Friends = Up to $49
2017 Silver: Johnnie Carter.
The Fort Worth Chapter is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization.
All contributions are tax-deductible.
Hearing Loss Association of America - Fort Worth Chapter
2017 NEWSLETTER POSTAL SUBSCRIPTION & CHAPTER DONATION FORM
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Bring to the monthly meeting or mail to: HLAA – Fort Worth, PO Box 1310, Euless TX 76039.
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The Hearing Loss Association America (HLAA), founded in 1979 by Rocky Stone, opens the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, advocacy, and support. HLAA publishes the bimonthly Hearing Loss Magazine, holds annual conventions, produces Walk4Hearing®
events, hosts online learning, and more. HLAA has an extensive network of chapters and state organizations. Further information can be found at
www.hearingloss.org. The national headquarters is located at 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 1200, Bethesda, MD 20814. Telephone: 301-657-2248.
2017 Board of Directors President: David Edmondson ([email protected]) Vice-President: Jack Wages ([email protected]) Secretary: (Vacant) Treasurer: Patricia Hindman ([email protected]) Newsletter Editor: Dan White ([email protected]) Librarian/Historian: Judy Oetting ([email protected]) Hospitality Chair: Jeannene Brown ([email protected]) Program Chair: Joyce Parlin ([email protected])
Heard In Fort Worth
This newsletter is published monthly by the Hearing Loss Association of America - Fort Worth Chapter
New mailing address: Box 1310, Euless TX 76039 Telephone 817-564-3764 or 817-228-8041
http://www.hearinglossfortworth.org http://www.hearingloss.org
Hearing Evaluations * Hearing Devices
J. Thomas Roth, Au.D. CCC-A, FAAA Doctor of Audiology
Phone 817-332-8817 904 W. Pennsylvania
Fax 817-332-8827 Ft. Worth, TX 76104
ANTHONY HEARING AIDS
Physician-Based Hearing Solutions
Phillip F. Anthony, M.D., Otologist
Sandra Clarkson, MA, CCC-A, FAAA, Lead Audiologist
Julie Mistic, Au.D, CCC-A, FAAA, Audiologist
901 Hemphill, Fort Worth, Texas 76104
817/338-HEAR
Fonner Hearing Aid Center
315 Randol Mill Road, Arlington 76011 Call 817-277-8121 Fax — 817-277-8191
6647 Boulevard 26, Fort Worth 76180 Call 817-284-8584 Fax — 817-284-3253
www.Fonnerhearing.com
HEARING CARE CENTER
“Helping patients and families hear a difference”
Kurt Chappell, BBA
4736 Bryant Irvin Road, Suite 702 Fort Worth, TX 76132
(817) 263-1971 www.chappell-hearing-aids.com
This Ad Space is Available.
Email [email protected].
Fonner Hearing Aid Center
Arlington 315 Randol Mill Road
Tel — 817-277-8121 Fax — 817-277-8191
Fort Worth 6647 Boulevard 26
Tel — 817-284-8584 Fax — 817-284-3253
www.texasears.com
HEALTHFIRST MEDICAL GROUP
SCOTT O’LEARY, M.S., CCC-A AUDIOLOGIST
Audiology/Hearing Aids
George Kostohryz, Jr. M.D.
Otolaryngology/ENT
4625 Boat Club Road, #257 Phone 817-346-6464
Fort Worth, Texas 76135 Fax 817-238-0054
Marylyn Koble, M.S., CCC-A, Audiologist
(817) 504-3644 [email protected]
Call for an in-home consultation
Audiology Associates of Arlington
Elizabeth Johnson, Au.D., FAAA
Comprehensive Audiological Evaluations Hearing Aids and Assistive Devices
3132 MATLOCK RD., STE 303 817-472-7720 ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76014 817-417-7280 FAX
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Heard in Fort Worth HEARING LOSS NEWSLETTER
We meet on the second Saturday of each month. This month we are meeting in St. John’s Anglican Church’s
parish hall in the 950 block of Page Street in Fort Worth, around the corner from our
previous site at the Goodrich Center. See page one for details.
Telephone 817-228-8041 for further information.
All are welcome!
Tinnitus Support Group Do you suffer from tinnitus (ringing in the ears or
other head noises)? A tinnitus support group meets
each month at the UTD Callier Center in Dallas,
but it is not sponsored by Callier.
The group is a part of the American Tinnitus
Association (ATA) and is member run.
For more information, email the Dallas Group at
If anyone is interested in consulting regarding
options for tinnitus treatment/management, Shawna
Jackson, Au.D., a faculty associate at Callier,
specializes in tinnitus and would be happy to
arrange a consultation. Email Dr. Jackson at
[email protected] for answers to
questions or concerns or to schedule an
appointment.
Source: Dr. Shawna Jackson, forwarded by Darlene Liesner
