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Auracast and Assistive Listening: The Journey So Far and What’s Ahead

(October 2025) International webinar panel. Excitement about Auracast™ assistive listening potential is building, and transmitters are already being installed in some venues, but how does it meet the needs of the hearing loss community – and are they ready to use it? And where does it leave existing assistive listening technologies? This webinar panel covers […]

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Hear Your Best with Telecoils and Auracast

Juliëtte’s Sterkens, AuD. Zoom webinar (7/26/25). HLAA-Los Angeles. (1 hr). Slides and additional handouts In this insightful and engaging session, audiologist and advocate Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens explores why assistive listening technology—like telecoils and Auracast Broadcast Audio—remains essential, even with the most advanced hearing aids and cochlear implants. Discover how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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“Auracast is Here!” Now What?

(April 10, 2025) Audiologist and hearing advocate Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD, says that although Auracast holds great promise for the future, it will take time and some specific provisions before hearing aid users and others fully benefit from it. Until then, existing systems like loop systems will continue to be important as they are far more

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OVERVIEW: U.S. Declaration, ADA-Access-Ready Hearing Instruments (2024)

(1 page, pdf) Changes Needed to Access ADA Assistive Listening Systems. Includes a) quotes from frustrated users with hearing loss  b) quotes from frustrated audiologists c) summary of “ADA-Access-Ready Hearing Instruments” Resources Overview, Word document version (.docx) Right click and then select “save as” Declaration (this website)

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U.S. Declaration, ADA-Access-Ready Hearing Instruments: Auracast™ and Telecoils (2024)

(5 pages) To guide the critical changes needed, the Center for Hearing Access has issued a new 2024 United States Declaration, “ADA-Access-Ready Hearing Instruments: Auracast™ and Telecoils.” This timely statement comes on the heels of 16 years of national and international documents, and gives specific actions that have not been specified before. Resources: Declaration, Word

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