"ADA-Access-Ready" Hearing Instruments
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.
“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. Insist and if not, it’s ok to complain.
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(3 pages) Two lists of hearing instruments that are ADA-compatible devices: 1) telecoils and 2) telecoils and Auracast. Current need: Telecoils connect to ADA-compliant assistive listening systems (hearing loops, FM, …
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(April 2025) Hearing Health Foundation, by Whyman. “ADA-Access-Ready” hearing instruments will require: 1) Both telecoil and Auracast connectivity and 2) single button access to assistive listening. I have found that …
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(webpage) Explains why people need telecoils, and how they can augment the effectiveness of your hearing aid or cochlear implant – giving you access under the ADA. Bluetooth alone is …
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
- Open Letter to Manufacturers and Providers, “ADA-Access-Ready” Hearing Instruments
- Declaration for the United States audience.
- 2024 Overview U.S. Declaration, ADA-Access-Ready Hearing Instruments
- 2024 U.S. Declaration, ADA-Access-Ready Hearing Instruments: Auracast™ and Telecoils
- 16 years of international Declarations and Statements