The mission of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Downeast Chapter is to educate Mainers with hearing loss (as well as their families and friends) about the causes, nature, and complications of hearing loss and what can be done to better cope with that loss.
Good News! Thanks to a campaign spearheaded by HLAA’s Shari Eberts, Zoom has agreed to provide captions on free accounts. [Below is from Shari’s blog, “Living With Hearing Loss” From …
Zoom Makes Automated Speech Recognition Captioning Free for People with Hearing Loss Read More...Shari Eberts, hearing loss advocate and HLAA National board member, was interviewed by NPR’s Peter O’Dowd on Here and Now about Zoom and the lack of captioning on their free …
Shari Eberts of HLAA Was Interviewed on National Public Radio (NPR) Read More...Theaters are opening for live audiences again! The first open captioned performances in New England start this weekend. There is also good news to share on the OTC hearing aids. …
Open Caption Performances! And Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids – Coming! Read More...By John Jurgensen, April 1, 2020 12:18 pm ET As he recently dug into an unfamiliar drama, California native Adan Franco relied on the closed captioning at the bottom …
[Inaudible Chatter] Closed Captioning Becomes Hit With TV Viewers Read More...