August 2016 WFHRMA Luncheon Meeting: Employment and the Hearing Loss Specialist

When
09 Aug 2016
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
Vernon College - Century City Center Rm 605, 4105 Maplewood, Wichita Falls, Texas 76308
Registered
28 registrants

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Non-members: Please email amy.morrison.brown@gmail.com or call 972-955-7663 if you wish to attend after your first visit, but don't want to order a lunch.
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$10 Meal Price is for members only.
(Lunch will be provided at no cost for first time guests - after first visit meal price is $15)
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(Lunch will be provided at no cost for first time guests - after first visit meal price is $15)

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The August 2016 meeting of the Wichita Falls HR Management Association (WFHRMA) will be:

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

11:45 AM to 1:00 PM

Century City Center - Room 605

4105 Maplewood

Wichita Falls, TX 76308

(940) 689-3714

As always, lunch will be provided.

The cost is $10 for members and FREE for first time guests! Guests joining us after their first visit will be charged $15 for lunch.

Guest Speaker: Jim Wise

Topic: Employment and the Hearing Loss Specialist

Program Description: This program will cover:

1. What is a Hearing Loss Resource Specialist

2. Understanding basics of hearing loss

3. Barriers to effective communication

4. Communication is a two-way street

5. Assistive Technology

6. Q & A

Speaker Biography:

Jim Wise is a graduate of Columbia College where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice. He worked for a time with the Columbia Police Dept. as a Community Service Aid officer and graduated from the Police Academy.

He moved to Dallas, TX in 1993 to attend Dallas Theological Seminary and graduated with a Master’s Degree in Christian Education emphasizing Family Ministry.

From the time he was in kindergarten till now he has lived with and interacted with people that have had different disabilities. He believes that this has helped him immensely in understanding, empathizing and generally feeling comfortable with those who have disabilities. He has a binaural hearing loss that is hereditary. This alone has been very beneficial to him in his current employment with Disability in Action and formerly with Deaf Action Center in Dallas, first as an STAP Coordinator and now even more so as a Hearing Loss Resource Specialist.

The consumers he has met over the last few years have greatly appreciated the fact that he, too, is “hard of hearing”, just like them, and that he understands what they go through on a daily basis, which puts them at ease in talking to him.

As a Hearing Loss Resource Specialist, He helps those who are hard of hearing and deaf to understand their hearing loss, understand hearing aids and cochlear implants, providing them with resource information and telling them about technology that supplements hearing aids in certain environments and situations where hearing aids and cochlear implants are not enough. He also helps them with coping skills and communication tips. He does free presentations to businesses, organizations, schools, government entities, etc. He works for Disability in Action located in Abilene, but his office is in Wichita Falls. His work is grant-funded. He has a contract with the Dept. of Assistive and Rehab Services (DARS) Office for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services (DHHS). With this grant his main focus is on Vocational Rehab consumers who are working, looking for work or in high school or college, but he also works with anyone that has a hearing loss.

RSVP no later than noon Friday, August 5, 2016.

A reservation made is a reservation paid unless cancelled before noon on the Friday before the event.