Participation, Rules and Etiquette
NYSSLHA members are encouraged to use their network of fellow professionals to ask questions, pose problems, seek resources and more.
To access the NYSSLHA Online Community Forum: https://nysslha.groups.io/g/main
To subscribe, please click or copy and paste the link https://nysslha.groups.io/g/main and at the bottom in the blue box, click “+Apply For Membership In This Group.” Enter you email address and an email verification will be sent directly to your email to set up your account. NYSSLHA will then verify if you are an active NYSSLHA member before being granted access to the forum. For any technical difficulties, please email info@nysslha.org.
We have created multiple groups for you to join so you are getting information that is specific to your needs and interests. Once you have joined and been accepted, log into your account, and on the left vertical toolbar you will see a category called “subgroups”. You can join as many subgroups as you would like.
To post, send an email to the group below you would like to post to from the email account subscribed to the forum.
- NYSSLHA Main Group – main@nysslha.groups.io
- Audiology – audiology@nysslha.groups.io
- Diversity & Inclusionary Practices – diversity@nysslha.groups.io
- Early Intervention – earlyintervention@nysslha.groups.io
- Education – education@nysslha.groups.io
- Medical – medical@nysslha.groups.io
- NY Regulations & Guidelines – nyregulations@nysslha.groups.io
- Private Practice – privatepractice@nysslha.groups.io
- Students – students@nysslha.groups.io
- Telepractice – telepractice@nysslha.groups.io
- Universities – universities@nysslha.groups.io
To unsubscribe, send an email with unsubscribe in the subject line to info@nysslha.org.
For questions, contact the NYSSLHA Office at info@nysslha.org.
NYSSLHA Community Rules
- Do not post job openings on the group. All job openings must be listed through the NYSSLHA Career Center.
- Do not post patient identifiable information to the group.
- Do not post continuing education opportunities to the group.
- Do not post abusive, threatening, offensive, defamatory, profane or illegal materials to the group.
- Do not post any copyrighted materials to the group without permission from the copyright holder.
- Do not post anything to the group that you would not want everyone to see.
- Do not post irrelevant or off topic information to the group. This includes jokes, humorous stories or “pass-around” emails.
- Manufacturer’s representatives or developers of products are encouraged to respond off group to direct questions or to correct misinformation posted on the group. Do not post commercial messages or solicitations to the group.
- Please do not post attachments to the group unless the contents are clearly identified within the body of your posting. Links to websites or documents should be similarly identified.
- Racism and bigotry will not be tolerated in any form.
Etiquette
- Allow everyone to express opinions and concerns in a friendly manner. Treat everyone on the group with the same respect you expect.
- Be sure your name, affiliation and location are included on emails that you send.
- Include a specific and concise subject line for each email. This will allow others to delete emails regarding topics that are not of interest to them.
- When replying, make sure your response is listed at the top of the original email.
- Send personal messages to the individual sender if the email will relate only to the original sender. This includes such messages as “thanks” and “send the information to me too.”
- Please double check to make sure personal replies are not going to the group.
- Use professional language when discussing commercial products or services. Clearly identify within your posting if your comments are opinions based on experience, judgments based on experience and how you gathered the data upon which your comments or judgments are based.