What Jack Discovered and What Every Consumer Should Know. A seminal article. My neighbor ‘Jack’ has a bilateral moderate-to-severe sensorineural hearing loss. A retired NASA engineer, he has an active family and social life in our community of Annapolis, Maryland. When I asked him how exactly I could help, he handed me a one-page handout […]
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(1 page) Ensuring effective communication is critical when a patient with hearing loss seeks treatment. This handout has practical ideas to explore.
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(1 page graphical) How to give hearing accessibility for yoga with a portable loudspeaker, an FM assistive listening system, and proprietary remote microphones. Email the Center for Hearing Access about how this set-up was used for a low-vision yoga class.
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(1 page) by audiologist, Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens. 10 short explanations to understand hearing loss and communicate better. The use of Clear Speech has been shown to improve communication.
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(1 page) Auracast is an emerging technology and there are items to still work out, so advocacy, asking for proof, and understanding the current status is important. Auracast™ Streamed Assistive Listening Systems has many potential capabilities.
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(2 pages) by Jim Rau. This is an account of my experience requesting a hearing loop for the check in counter at my local Twin Ports VA Clinic in Superior WI. It describes VA’s responses, miscommunications, misunderstandings and bureaucratic detours and dead-ends. Chronologically it spans from about 2018 to June of 2021. The whole process
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(December 2024) This study explored clinicians’ perspectives on telecoils, including their approaches to patient education and the factors influencing their decision to implement telecoils in hearing aids. Assistive Listening Burwinkel, Justin R., et al. (February 2024) “Hearing Loops and Induction Coils: Improving SNR in Public Spaces.” Hearing Review 31, no. 2 pp 22–25. Alles, M.
(1 page) “ADA-Access-Ready” Hearing Instruments Recently, some providers are erroneously telling patients they don’t need/no longer need telecoils – “Auracast is coming.” Auracast is promising, but it will take time before it becomes commonplace, with limited availability of 1) Auracast-compatible hearing instruments and 2) publicly installed Auracast installations. Also, it’s problematic because, ironically, if users don’t
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(February 2025) 52 pages, United Kingdom, RNID. Auracast has the potential to make the world more inclusive for all, transforming access to health, employment, transport, culture, and more. The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) report focuses on people who are deaf or have hearing loss, but there are several other groups who could
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(1 page) Today, we at the Center for Hearing Access, are deeply concerned about users/patients being able to easily connect their hearing devices to ALL assistive listening systems. These include current and future technologies: hearing loops, FM/RF, infrared, and Auracast. As you know, assistive listening systems are covered in the United States by the Americans with
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