OUR NATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Hearing Loss Association of America (formerly Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc.) is the nation’s leading membership and advocacy organization for people with hearing loss. It is an international, non-sectarian, educational organization of people with hearing loss, their relatives and friends. It is devoted to the welfare and interests of those who cannot hear well, but are committed to participating in the hearing world.

SHHH was founded in 1979 by Howard E. "Rocky" Stone, who had a vision of an organization run by people with hearing loss and benefiting people with hearing loss. He suffered a bilateral hearing loss at age 19 and now wears a cochlear implant, so he knows firsthand the difficulties caused by hearing loss.

Please join HLAA. It's easy, inexpensive and rewarding.

AUDIOLOGISTS

Have you thought about giving a $25 membership in HLAA with each purchase of hearing aids? HLAA members receive 6 copies per year of the Hearing Loss magazine and 4 issues of the state newsletter, The Hearing Loss Californian. These publications will aid greatly in aural rehabilitation. Help your hard of hearing clients become informed consumers. Invest in their success.

Read about why Mary Frintner, AuD, FAAA, gives a membership in HLAA to every hearing aid purchaser: Bringing Light to a Long Dark Tunnel

What will HLAA do for me? HLAA National membership brings:

• A subscription to Hearing Loss: The Journal of HLAA containing the latest information on technology, legislation and coping with hearing loss.

• A subscription to the quarterly State Newsletter, The Hearing Loss Californian.

• Automatic membership in HLA-CA upon payment of these dues

• Annual conventions throughout the United States, reaching out to all

• Advocacy for communication access in the workplace, hotels, schools, court systems, medical, and entertainment facilities.

• Promotion of new technology, medical research, and legislation that will alleviate the effects of hearing loss.

• Encouragement of research and participation in research to improve hearing aids, assistive listening devices, and other technology needs of consumers with hearing loss. We push for research on understanding the causes of hearing loss and for development of new treatments.

• Our testimony before federal, state, and local legislative bodies on issues concerning people with hearing loss.

• Implementation of federal and state laws which benefit people with hearing loss.

Please join HLAA. Your membership gives us strength in numbers.

JOIN US IN MAKING HEARING LOSS AN ISSUE OF NATIONAL CONCERN

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