"ADA-Access-Ready" Hearing Instruments

3 symbols: International Symbol of Access for Hearing Loss, telecoil, Auracast

Become empowered. You have the right to be able to go out in public and have access to any assistive listening system, whether in your community or traveling around the world. You need access via:

  • Telecoil connector: hearing loops (direct connection no borrowed equipment needed), FM/RF (via neckloop), infrared (via neckloop), and Auracast streamed assistive listening systems (via neckloop)
  • Auracast connector: for Auracast streamed assistive listening systems

“ADA-Access-Ready” hearing aids and cochlear implants give you the capability to do just that, when you have both telecoil and Auracast included in the instrument itself.

At your hearing aid appointment, insist. If you have concerns, express them to your audiologist or hearing instrument specialist.

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(3 pages) Two lists of hearing instruments that are ADA-compatible …
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(1 page) Auracast is an emerging technology and there are …
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(April 2025) Hearing Health Foundation, by Whyman. “ADA-Access-Ready” hearing instruments …
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(August 27, 2025) A new Bluetooth® capability known as Auracast™ …
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(updated Feb 12, 2026) “…even a top-of-the-line hearing aid can …
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(webpage) Explains why people need telecoils, and how they can …

Resources on This Website

  • Where can you use “ADA-Access-Ready” hearing instruments? Places to use (places that are required to have assistive listening systems, per the ADA)
  • Hearing Instruments Manufacturers-Contact Information. Love your hearing aid, but missing a telecoil or another feature? Contact or submit a complaint.
  • ADA-Access-Ready Postcard. What audiologists and hearing instrument specialists ‘should’ have in their professional offices and ‘should’ be teaching you as a patient.

Center for Hearing Access Initiatives