PROGRAM AIDS ADULTS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HEARING LOSS

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 8 -- The University of Virginia's
Speech-Language Hearing Center will soon offer new sessions of
family-centered therapy for adults experiencing hearing loss.
	The Speech-Language-Hearing Center is sponsoring the
Rehabilitating Auditory Communications Techniques (ReACT) Program.
ReACT is a six-week program conducted in group and individual sessions
at U.Va.'s Curry School of Education's Speech-Language-Hearing Center
at 2205 Fontaine Avenue.  A new ReACT program will meet 1-3 p.m. on
Thursdays from March 20 through April 24.
	ReACT's goals are to help participants understand their
hearing problems, become better consumers of hearing aid and assistive
device technology and learn ways of communicating that reduce the
hearing-loss handicap, according to Dr. Robert Novak, director of the
U.Va. communications disorders program.  ReACT will also help
participants understand the psychological and social ramifications of
hearing loss. 
	For more information, contact Bea Montgomery at (804)
924-6354.
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March 7, 1997
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