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In some settings, loop systems are the only feasible assistive
listening systems. When ordering food at a drive-up order station,
when buying a ticket from someone on the other side of a glass
window, or when talking with one's pharmacist or bank teller
at a drive-up window, there won't be any infrared or FM assistive
listening units available for check out. One hears or one doesn't
(and sometimes hearing is crucial).
Nearly all such venues, whether indoors or outdoors, can
now be looped. Telecoil-equipped hearing aid wearers, for
example, need only hit their T switch while ordering at a
fast food station or subway kiosk and, voila!, the clerk's
voice will broadcast directly through one's hearing aids,
right inside the car. At a subway station, bank teller station,
or movie theater ticket window, one may stand on a looped
pad that broadcasts the clerk's voice directly into one's
head. For example, all London
Underground ticket offices are being looped.
All London taxis are looped. So are 11,500 British Post Office
Ltd. branches.
For samples of products for small areas, visit here.
Here are examples of venues where the induction loop is used;
look in each picture for the international loop system sign!
Gerald R. Ford International Airport
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Royal Bank of Scotland
St. Andrews |
Post Office
St. Andrews
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Tourist Information Centre
Craignure, Isle of Mull |
Paragon Bank
Holland, Michigan
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Train station
Canterbury, England
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Sign in Edinburgh taxi
Tourist Information Centre
Liverpool, England |
Tower of London
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