This is open to all cochlear implant users, candidates, family members,
and CI professionals - teachers, audiologists and other service providers.
The meeting is held at 10:00 to noon on the 3rd (third) Saturday of
every month at our center. No meetings will be held in June, July, or August.

Cost: Client participants-Donation appreciated. $20.00 donation is asked of CI professionals such as teachers, audiologists and other service providers. Money goes into scholarship funds and to real time captioning.

No one turned away for lack of funds.

Parking in rear, Buses 24, 31, 5, & 38

If interested in attending, please RSVP to barbara@hearingspeech.org

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Hard-of-Hearing Community Support Group

The next Hard-of Hearing Community Support group will be Saturday,
January 21st, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm. For more info contact
shannon@hearingspeech.org.

Community Support Group for active adults with hearing loss facilitated by
Director of Counseling and Outreach, Shannon Simonson. We will be sharing
communication strategies that work best during the busy holidays.

This group is self-supporting through individual donations. The recommended
donation is $10 per individual. No one is turned away for lack of funds. The
donations cover costs to use the facility, for staffing and opening the Resource
Center Store

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Tinnitus Support Group

The next meeting for the San Francisco Tinnitus Support/Education
Group will be TUESDAY, JANUARY 24TH at the usual time 5:30-7:00 p.m.
We meet in the conference room on the second floor at The Hearing and
Speech Center of Northern California, 1234 Divisadero St. San
Francisco. There is free parking behind the building.

We will start out with a brief review of the new Sound Cure Device and the <
Meisch Temple Massager. For those of you who are participating in the mini <
study please bring the massager with you. If you are going to continue with the<
device, there will be more detailed instructions about usage. Also, you will need <
to fill out another questionnaire. If you are not able to attend and want to continue, <
please send me an email and I will attach the questionnaire. If you are not going <
to continue with the device, please return it so that someone else can try it.

In addition to our usual round table forum, we will review several
new interesting articles on tinnitus and discuss items of interest from the new
Tinnitus Today magazine.

Looking forward to next month, we will have a presentation by Dr. Tracy
Peck on biofeedback and how it can be used as a treatment for tinnitus. Save February
21st for this most informative meeting.

Our meetings are free and open to the public and provide support for
people with tinnitus and hyperacusis and their significant others.
Current information on tinnitus treatments are presented along with
discussion of coping with and managing the problems associated with
tinnitus and hyperacusis.

Please let us know if you will be attending the meeting.
Donations make these meetings possible and are happily accepted.

Malvina C. Levy, Au.D. email - mlevy@hearingspeech.org
Tracy Peck, Au.D. email - tpeck@hearingspeech.org

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