Employment Issues

Workshop on employment issues looked at the difference between the 20^th and 21^st century challenges in the workplace. Whereas meetings used to be face to face, typically now they are distance meetings, conference calls, darkened rooms with power point projected presentations that create serious accessibility challenges. Suggested solutions included things like CART, remote CART, FM system connected to speaker phone among other things.Pat Krikos Ph.D, University of Florida talked about 1000 Ways to Say “HUH?. Her strategies were for partners also. Accentuate the positive, rephrase, repair strategies – all good stuff for knowing how to handle miscommunications due to our hearing loss.