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ALDAcon 2023

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ALDA provides support, advocacy, and outreach for Late-Deafened, Deaf, and Hard of Hearing, as well as their families. Our community is here to share unique experiences, challenges, and coping strategies. We are all in this together.
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ALDA Board Nominations for the 2023 Term

It’s time to nominate ALDAns to serve on our Board of Directors. This year’s open positions are: Regional 3 Director Regional 4 Director ALDA President ALDA Vice President Nominations can be made by any ALDA member who is current on their dues, either nominating someone else or themselves. All candidates…

Call for nominations! ALDAcon 2022 Awards

Want to recognize a great volunteer or organization? Each year ALDA honors people and organizations that have improved the lives of people with hearing loss or significantly contributed to the activities and well-being of ALDA. This is your chance to recognize these individuals and organizations. Award categories include: I. King…

Advocacy Corner – Winter 2022

Three cases that have occurred since the last newsletter are worth mentioning. Two of them involve deaf or hard of hearing people, and the one that does not still has the potential to significantly affect us. The first case (Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller) involves a deaf woman who was referred to a rehabilitation office for physical therapy. The office refused to provide interpreters and said the woman must bring her own interpreter at her expense, a blatantly illegal claim. She sued, asking for damages to compensate her for the injury of being excluded…