Educational Opportunities by Experts & More
Chapter Meetings
West Valley Chapter meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month from October through May. Come for our Brown Bag session from noon to 12:45 p.m. Or check in by 12:45 p.m. with the presentation until 2:30 p.m.
Our monthly chapter meetings provide educational opportunities by experts in the hearing loss community. At our meetings, individuals with varying levels of hearing loss help one another by providing ideas, support, and sharing experiences to make life a little easier with hearing loss.
Our meetings are free, amplified and the room has an induction loop system allowing you to use your t-coil setting. We also use CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) caption service, which means the meetings are captioned in real time.
Scroll down to find our current meeting notice, book club information and other events.
Current Meeting Notice
West Valley H.O.P.E.
Our chapter has a drop-in H.O.P.E. (Hearing Other People's Experiences) session that meets the third Monday of the month at 2:00 p.m. MST on Zoom. These sessions started out as a book group set up during Covid. But we soon realized we were talking about things beyond discussing the book. We use the time to listen to one another and share our experiences to help each other. This year we may expand our horizons and try new things like watching and discussing TED Talks, or other types of interesting content.
Contact Fred Williams, [email protected] for more information about the meeting and to request a link to the Zoom meeting.
List of books read to date:
Hearing Loss for Dummies, was co-authored by Frank Lin, MN, PhD., and Nicholas Reed, AuD.
Hear & Beyond, Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss was co-written by our November 8, 2022 presenter, Gael Hannan.
True Biz by Sara Nović
Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World by David Owens
Shouting Won't Help: Why I and 50 million Other Americans Can't Hear You by Katherine Bouton
Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss by Katherine Bouton
Life After Deaf: My Misadventures in Hearing Loss and Recovery by Noel Holston
I'll Scream Later by Marlee Matlin
A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss by David Myers
National Conference
The June 12 - 14, 2025 HLAA National Conference is going to be held in Indianapolis, IN. Check back for more information.
Here is the national web site's link to its conference: https://www.hearingloss.org/programs-events/convention/
Walk4Hearing
Join Melanie and the West Valley Walkers Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. at Rio Salado Park in Mesa, Arizona.
Here is the national link to the Arizona walk.
https://www.hearingloss.org/programs-events/walk4hearing/