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Hearing Loss Association of Delaware
Hearing Loss Academy
WHO: Classes are for consumers, family members, professionals, businesses and schools.
Customized classes for your group or organization on-site by request. The classes listed can last an hour or more and can run up to six weeks.
Instructors are professionals such as audiologists, speech pathologists, and interpreters with experience in teaching.
Cost for one one-hour class per week for six weeks is $70 and include all materials. Some classes may be one hour or shorter Introductory versions of the classes listed below and are available for free through our Speaker's Bureau, so please check our Speaker's Bureau list on this web site for a list of free lectures.
Private classes or instruction may be arranged and a negotiated individual rate by request.
WHAT:
- Introduction to Hearing loss
- Understanding Your Hearing Loss
- Noise and Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss in Children
- Communication and Educational Options for Infants and Children with Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss and Your Rights
- Hearing aids
- Getting the Most Out of Hearing Aids
- American Sign Language
- Cochlear implants
- Speechreading (lipreading)
- Introduction to Assistive devices
- Telephones, Relay and CAPTEL for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
- Using the Telephone Relay Service
- Coping with a Hearing Loss
- Living with Someone with a Hearing Loss
- Communication and Educational Options for Infants and Children with Hearing Loss
- How to Help your Child at Home and School
- Living with Hearing Loss
- Working with a Hearing Loss
- Introduction to Computers for people with hearing loss
- Music and Hearing Loss
- History of Hearing Aids
- Web Resources for Hearing Loss
- Delaware and Regional Resources for Hearing Loss
- How to Advocate for your Child in School or College
- How to be a Self-Advocate
When / Where:
The 2006 class schedule will be released soon. Classes are held in New Castle County and at other selected sites, as requested, in Kent and Sussex County.
Classes will be are held at our 2400 West 4th street office in Wilmington. We will also schedule classes in the areas where 10 or more people want the class to be held.
Such classes may be conducted at libraries, community centers, senior centers, health care clinics or facilities, businesses, schools, churches or private agencies or organizations.
To register for a class, fill out this form .
For more information, or to request classes to be conducted in your area contact us.
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