{"id":4836,"date":"2022-01-17T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:26:48","slug":"hearing-accessibility-advisory-board-seeking-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4836","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Accessibility Advisory Board Seeking Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>The Hearing Accessibility Advisory&nbsp;Board (HAAB) is&nbsp;seeking candidates&nbsp;to serve on its advisory Board. Candidates should&nbsp;possess significant&nbsp;experience&nbsp;with deaf\/hard of hearing issues, assistive technology, legal, program policy and development, and general disability awareness.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Board meets&nbsp;virtually, once a month, and serves at the&nbsp;pleasure&nbsp;of the Secretary of the Department of General Services.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>In 2019, Maryland passed&nbsp;legislation requiring facilities and buildings receiving state funds&nbsp;to&nbsp;install hearing loop or&nbsp;other similar systems&nbsp;during renovation or construction.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The role of&nbsp;HAAB&nbsp;is to ensure&nbsp;and monitor&nbsp;compliance in accordance with the legislation, consult with stakeholders, make recommendations, and investigate complaints.&nbsp;HAAB&nbsp;also reviews requests for waivers from the legislation.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The Board consists of individuals with hearing loss who use hearing loop systems and experts&nbsp;within the disability and technology field.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>For more information, please contact James King with the Department of General Services at 410-952-3158.<\/div>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4836\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hearing Accessibility Advisory&nbsp;Board (HAAB) is&nbsp;seeking candidates&nbsp;to serve on its advisory Board. Candidates should&nbsp;possess significant&nbsp;experience&nbsp;with deaf\/hard of hearing issues, assistive technology, legal, program policy and development, and general disability awareness.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Board meets&nbsp;virtually, once a month, and serves at the&nbsp;pleasure&nbsp;of the Secretary of the Department of General Services.&nbsp; &nbsp; In 2019, Maryland passed&nbsp;legislation requiring facilities and buildings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}