The Wisconsin CIAI Chapter presents:

Kerry Malak of UniversaLink will cover assistive technology, signaling devices and the new CapTel telephone. Diane Contreras, staff audiologist will be discussing FM systems and improving listening with Cochlear Implants. Please plan to attend! This will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about how to live independently with deafness and hearing loss, as well as how to expand your hearing capabilities with the cochlear implant thru the use of assistive devices, including telephones and FM systems. This presentation will conclude with a discussion and sharing of what individual users have found useful as well as time for questions and answers for our presenters.

Kerry Malak is the General Manager of Universalink, the assistive technology program at the Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CDHH). In addition to coordinating community outreach for CDHH, UniversaLink provides personal technology consultations, in-home services, worksite assessments and hearing loss awareness workshops.

Diane Contreras, M.S., CCC-A is a licensed and certified audiologist and clinical instructor who provides audiological services at CDHH through an ongoing collaboration with the UW-Milwaukee Hearing Evaluation Center. She obtained her Master's degree in Audiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been employed at CDHH for the past four years. Ms. Contreras provides hearing and hearing aid evaluations, hearing aid fittings, assistive listening device assessments and fittings for the greater metropolitan Milwaukee community.

The WI Cochlear Implant Chapter meeting is open to anyone who has a cochlear implant, is considering an implant or has a family member with an implant. Even if you are simply interested in learning more about the cochlear implant, we hope you will join us for this meeting! Bring a treat to share!

SOCIAL TIME...

FOR THOSE WHO WANT AN OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT AND CATCH UP WITH EACH OTHER PRIOR TO THE MEETING – WE PLAN TO MEET AT SCHLOTZKY’S AT THE INTERSECTION CAPITOL DR AND 124TH ST, A SHORT DRIVE NORTH OF CDHH, AT 11:30 A.M. (Come whenever you can) WE WILL MEET BACK AT CDHH AT 12:45 PM TO SET UP FOR THE MEETING.

Cochlear Implant Association, Inc. (CIAI), formerly Cochlear Implant Club International, Inc., is a non-profit organization for cochlear implant recipients, their families, professionals, and other individuals interested in cochlear implants. The Association provides support and information and access to local support groups for adults and children who have cochlear implants, or who are interested in learning about cochlear implants. We also advocate for the rights of and services for people with hearing loss. Visit the website www.cici.org for more information.

We thank Milwaukee Otologic and Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing for their generous support!