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Hear Indiana Listening and Spoken Language Conference 2026
Hear Indiana will host its 48th annual Listening and Spoken Language Conference at the Easterseals Crossroads Building in Indianapolis, with sessions also available on demand afterward. According to Hear Indiana, the conference brings together parents of children with hearing loss, adults who are deaf or hard of hearing, and professionals in hearing health and education around a shared focus on…
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MEDICA 2026
MEDICA is an international medical technology trade fair held annually in Düsseldorf, covering medical devices, imaging, health IT, diagnostics, and hospital equipment across the wider healthcare industry. It runs alongside COMPAMED, a co-located trade fair for the medical technology supplier and components sector. The expo is a professional and trade audience event rather than a consumer one, and…
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Scaling Digital Accessibility through ServiceNow: From Requests to Results
Presenters from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will explain how the agency uses the ServiceNow platform to manage its digital accessibility work. That work includes document remediation requests, Section 508 training, testing information and communication technology (ICT) applications, and IT reasonable accommodation requests. The webinar session will cover ticket management…
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ASHA Convention 2026
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association holds its 2026 Convention at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, under the theme "Momentum: Where Vision Meets Action," with a large in-person program and supplemental virtual content. According to ASHA, the convention offers thousands of sessions for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing…
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Consumer Standards Central: A Guide to Volunteering
The American National Standards Institute is holding a free webinar on how consumers can take part in developing product standards. ANSI Consumer Outreach Manager Cleo Stamatos will lead the session, joined by guests from the standards community. The briefing covers what standards development is, why it matters, and how to participate. ANSI says product standards are developed by thousands of…
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Better Together: Auracast and Hearing Loops, Understanding the Future of Assistive Listening
The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) is hosting a free public webinar examining how Auracast broadcast audio and hearing loops fit together in the future of assistive listening. Auracast, a newer broadcast audio standard built on Bluetooth LE Audio, has drawn attention as a way to make sound more accessible in public spaces, which has raised questions about whether it will replace…
