Office Info
We are the Rhode Island State Association. Rhode Island does not currently have chapters as our state is very small. One can get from Westerly, the southernmost town to northern Rhode Island towns, such as Smithfield, in less than a hour.
We typically have 4-5 meetings per year, with a professional CART provider. The meetings are hybrid both meeting in person at the Warwick Public Library and some joining us on Zoom.
in 2024, we had five meetings:
In January we had a meeting to welcome new members and to look back on where we have been.
In March the speaker was a Deaf woman, a cancer survivor herself, discussing the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Cancer Survivors Support Group. Some of us attended a Grief Workshop that they sponsored.
In May we were treated to combination program and concert by Stu Nunnery, a well known singer and instrumentalist. Stu had stopped playing when diagnosed with hearing loss. He told us about his long road back and how it was achieved. At the end, he sung some of his songs and played piano.
In September we had a picnic.
In November we held a planning meeting.
Some popular meetings over the last few years have been:
Hearing Loops: This featured one of the two persons who set up hearing loops in locations throughout the state, including four in the Rhode Island State House.
Panel on Meniere’s Disease: Several of our members talked about their experience with Meniere’s Disease.
“Hear Music Again” : One of our members, a former professional singer, talked about the “hard of hearing friendly” internet radio station that she has set up.
A showing of a video on Communication Strategies, featuring four audiologists, two of whom are deaf or hard of hearing themselves.