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Are there any winners? Anyone claiming the $100 gift card?
Do we have a winner?
Alright, here is the winning number.
589-155.
Our next drawing in 15 minutes will be for another gift card.
And at 10:30 we are drawing for an iPad Mini. So stick around.
Hi, I'm Nancy Macklin, director or events and marketing for HLAA.
I'm so excited that the young adults from across the country made it to Portland.
And really excited that so many of you are looking forward to convention 2014
in Austin, Texas, June 26 to the 29. See you there.
Hey, this is Dan, and I am here supporting the 100 Portland group, movement.
It's my first time at the convention, and I'm having a great time.
It's been amazing, very eye opening, very Educational.
And I look forward to coming next year.
My name is Bonnie. I'm with HLAA in California. I'm on the board.
I am here for my third convention.
And every day, every speaker is better than the last one.
The one I just went to was wonderful, and I met people and learned a lot.
Hi, I'm Rachel. I'm one of the cofounders of HearYouNow, a support group for
young adults with hearing loss. And I support the 100 Portland.
I'm so glad to have so many young adults at the convention this year.
It's really awesome to see so many people here.
I'm Nanci Linke-Ellis. I'm from Southern California.
I'm the HLAA Southern California chapter coordinator.
My mission in life has been to put deaf and hard of hearing people in movie theaters.
And in 1993, I started the Caption Movie program.
My name is Senthil Srinivasan, from Waukesha, Wisconsin.
I have moderate hearing loss, bilateral.
And I started a hearing loss community, because I always felt like an outsider not
Having many friends, so that kind of inspired me to start a website four years ago.
I was featured in the Hearing Loss magazine where I shared my personal experiences.
And my website is deafandhoh.com, and you can easily find me there.
I hope you can come and join our community and be part of our group.
This is Diane, and I am having a great time at the convention in Portland.
I have been involved with HLAA for, since the start about 30 years.
And in that time, I have learned a lot, have grown to be comfortable with my hearing loss.
And I have met a lot of people who have become my second family.
So thank you all for that.
My name is Grace Tiessen. And I was president of the board of trustees
of Hearing Loss Association of California. I don't remember what year.
I am very interested in advocacy, and my interest is looping everything.
I live in Pasadena, and they say that we have a very accessible city.
But it's not true. It's totally inaccessible to people with hearing loss.
So I'm trying to get them to loop various schools in Pasadena, and that's my goal.
I went to UC Berkeley. And my hearing wasn't very bad then.
We were seated alphabetically, and my name began with W so sat right at the back.
Had I known I was hard of hearing, had someone told me to sit upfront,
I wouldn't have had any trouble at all. I didn't know, nobody ever told me I was
was hard of hearing. And I didn't know I was hard of hearing until I was about 50.
when I realized I couldn't hear my kids.
Oh, hello, I'm recording. Hello, how're you doing?
This is an amazing Gallaudet audiology professor.
Access Technologies is a private nonprofit in Salem that administers the ATP (Assistive
Technology Program) for Oregon. So every state has ATP, look up your state.
We also administer the iCanConnect program, which is through the FCC
and it provides equipment for deaf-blind people, declining vision, declining hearing.
Strata Communications is an agency that coordinates services such as sign language interpreting,
speech-to-text captioning, and TypeWell transcription.
We also do media captioning for videos, webinar captioning.
We are located in the Vancouver Washington, so Portland Metro area.
But we do services remotely and onsite nationwide and also in British Columbia.
Oticon Medical is the manufacturer of a bone anchored hearing system called the Ponto.
People that are candidates for the Ponto would be somebody with single-side deafness
or somebody with mixed or conductive hearing loss.
Hello, welcome to Captel. Welcome to the HLAA convention.
We are featuring caption telephone for people with hearing loss.
Everything the hearing person says on the phone will show up on the screen.
It's an amplified phone. It goes up to 40 decibels. It has a customer service button.
It's an excellent phone.
We have a non-Internet based model and we have a high-speed Internet based model.
Both of them have a built-in answering machine. Audio and caption.
The phone itself sells for $99. Or you may be able to qualify to get one free through a state program.
Hi, my name is Chuckie Butler, and I am with the Med-El Corporation. And we are here promoting the new Rondo.
You want to smile?
Hi, I'm Paula. We want to introduce you to the peer mentor program. It is a wonderful
program. Not only will you learn how to help other people but also to help yourself.
The goal of the program is to train hard of Hearing or deaf individuals to develop
an expertise in the area of hearing loss and everything that's available.
And then to use that information to then be able to be a resource to individuals
with hearing loss or those who are not sure what they may be able to do.
And by being an objective resource and by being hard of hearing or deaf,
being able to know what it might be like to have hearing loss.
Hi, my name is Andrew Metz, working with Scomm Company.
I'm here to promote the UbiDuo face-to-face communication solution
between deaf and HoH with hearing people. Come on and try us.
I'm Sam Nord with Listen Technologies. We are demonstrating hearing loop systems.
These systems allow someone with a hearing aid or a cochlear implant with a T setting to be
able to come into a room with amplifying audio, press a button in their hearing aid or implant
and get a feed of anything that is in the room being amplified.
It's a great, convenient way for people with cochlear implants or hearing aids to be able
to hear without having to wear devices and without the complications and logistics
of dealing with equipment.
I'm recording about the Helen Keller National Center for the Blind Youth, deaf and blind youth.
These glasses simulate blindness, so you can get a sense of each of the different kinds of blindness.
So, for example, you can use these goggles / glasses this kind of, here we go.
So what you would see, you would be able to see this much. And this.
Hi, my name is Nicole, and I enjoy my cochlear implants. I've had them for 17 years.
I'm Evelyn Gardner, and I volunteer with Advanced Bionics. And we're interested in cochlear implants
for people who are severely or profoundly hard of hearing. We have many processors available.
Some are a hundred percent waterproof, with new technology that uses wireless bluetooth.