(4 pages) Abridged references to the 2010 ADA Standards for Assistive Listening Systems and the Effective Communication 2014 bulletin.
ADA Assistive Listening Systems-Standards for Accessible Design Read More »
Postcard for patients to give to their audiologist. I need help with telecoils! Please advise me if my hearing instruments (hearing aid, cochlear implant, or bone conductive device) have telecoils. If they do, please activate and program them to use with an FM, infrared, or hearing loop assistive listening system (ALS). If I don’t have
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(2 pages) Hearing loops can help patients hear better in different locations — but when they are planning their day out and about, how will your patients know where hearing loops are? The new Google Maps “Assistive Hearing Loop” feature is good for professional hearing health care practices and entire communities.
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(2 pages) Patients need Bluetooth and telecoils. Many patients miss out because their audiologist didn’t educate them about using telecoils. Telecoils connect to assistive listening systems. Bluetooth connects to audio devices. PATIENTS NEED BOTH TODAY (2 pages)
2023 HLAA-Help Patients Hear In More Places With Telecoils AND Bluetooth Read More »
(2 pages) Did you know your clients must have telecoils in their hearing devices to use ADA mandated assistive listening technology effectively?
2022 Too Many People with Hearing Loss Miss Out Read More »
(1 page) When explaining to “hearing” business people (Rotaries, Chambers of Commerce), this sheet helps to explain the simplicity of a counter hearing loop. Describing the invisible, somewhat magical, process can’t be seen but profoundly enhances hearing accessibility.” As advocates for this powerful, and empowering, tool everyone needs to be able to describe the essential,
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(In-progress) Adult hearing health care lacks standard outcome measures that are related in meaningful ways to the individual’s perception of their functional abilities and the impact their hearing difficulties have on their quality of life. The committee will determine a core set of existing standard outcome measures, define the core outcome domains (including hearing, communication,
2025 NASEM Meaningful Outcome Measures in Adult Hearing Health Care Read More »
(4 pages) National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Recommendations for interoperability, public awareness, effective communication, and building specs “Community-based organizations, advocacy organizations, employers, private sector businesses, and government agencies (local, state, federal) should promote work and community environments that are conducive to effective communication and that support individuals with hearing loss. Specifically, they
(1 page) IFHOH (International Federation of Hard of Hearing People) World Congress in Budapest, regarding telecoils and Auracast “As a new technology, Auracast will take time to become stable, reliable, and easy enough to use for potential users. Therefore, it is important to have both telecoil and Auracast technologies in hearing aids and cochlear implants…
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(3 pages) Representatives from 15 countries passed a resolution that hearing loops provide a universal system and recommendations, including integrating telecoils. 2009. The first international conference on hearing loops for people with hearing loss – with participants from 15 countries. They passed the following resolution at Zurich University of Applied Sciences at Winterthur / Switzerland
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