On October 26, 2009 Advanced Bionics held a kickoff for their new Nashville Chapter. Elizabeth McDonald an audiologist from Advanced Bionics and Kelly Harris were the speakers at the kickoff. Elizabeth started off by welcoming everyone to the kickoff and had everyone introduce themselves. Elizabeth then told everyone about the Bionic Ear Association.
We were asked if anyone was mentor and volunteer. They talked about, what the mentor and volunteer does for the Bionic Ear Association (BEA) and we were asked if anyone else who would like to be one. After she talked about the BEA, and we discussed when we would have a chapter meetings, the time and the place. We decided that we would have the meeting every three months and that we would have them at the Nashville public Library in downtown Nashville. We also talked about "a walk for hearing"in the spring, but that will be discussed at the next meeting when the time and date will be set.
The new Nashville Chapter is for people that are recipients and people that have the AB Cochlear Implant to come together and talk about their story's and to get to know one another, as well as to family members of CI users to get support and help with questions that need to be answered.
Members in the chapter want to reach out to others because there are some people that do not know about the AB Cochlear Implant. We want, share information and providing support through the process of evaluations, surgeries, mappings, or any other experience unique to the hearing impaired and users of cochlear implants. We hope this Chapter will be a big success and will be helpful to many that are hard of hearing that are seeking information on AB cochlear implants and CI users.
Thank you Advanced Bionics for this new chapter for the counties in the state of Tennessee and the surrounding areas. Thank you again for this wonderful technology to help others hear again.
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