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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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2025 NASEM Measuring Meaningful Outcomes for Adult Hearing Health Interventions

As people get older, they become more likely to have hearing difficulties in certain situations; for example, having conversations in public settings where there is naturally more noise. This can sometimes lead to isolation, depression, or even fatigue from the effort needed to communicate with others. Clinicians and researchers often do not use standardized outcome

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Auracast™ and hearing aids: What to know

(August 27, 2025) A new Bluetooth® capability known as Auracast™ stands to improve accessibility for people with hearing loss, though it’s still in early stages of adoption. A hearing loss advocate weighs in on the benefits—and limitations—of this broadcast audio technology. By Linda Childers. Interview with Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD.

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Juliëtte Sterkens: What was it like presenting at TEDx Oshkosh?

What was it like preparing and presenting at TEDx Oshkosh, “What you don’t know about hearing aids?” (over one million views). Listen to a refreshing conversation with Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens about her passionate advocacy work for individuals with hearing loss and expanding hearing accessibility. TEDx Oshkosh TV interview, August 21, 2025 “Juliëtte Sterkens interview: presenting

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Best Practices in Hearing Enhancement

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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2025 Hear Here at Cedar Crest (Erickson community)

Listen to the residents speak about the hearing loops (induction loops) at Cedar Crest, how they help those with hearing loss, and the Hear Here committee. Hear Here at Cedar Crest (8:29) Slight correction: hearing loss is correlated (not causation) with falls

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Being Unapologetically Hard of Hearing

(HearingLoss LIVE) “We can be unapologetically Hard of Hearing with minor changes in habit. The biggest apologetic action we see from those with hearing loss is: “I’m sorry, I have hearing loss. Can you repeat that?” Are we sorry for ourselves or others? Why do we do that? Let’s start dropping the ‘sorry’.”

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Consumer Reports, “Make Your Hearing Aids Work Harder”

(updated Feb 12, 2026) “…even a top-of-the-line hearing aid can provide only a subpar listening experience in comparison. ‘It (a telecoil) augments what that hearing aid can do—that the hearing aid simply cannot do any other way.’ ” “What’s the key hearing aid feature to ask your audiologist or hearing aid dispenser for these situations?

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Statement on Auracast™ Technology and the Future of Hearing Accessibility from Better Hearing Australia

Australia Statement on Auracast™ Technology and the Future of Hearing Accessibility [BHA] (2025)

“However, its (Auracast) potential is limited in the near term by cost, device compatibility, digital literacy, and public infrastructure challenges. We advocate for a dual-technology approach, maintaining and upgrading existing hearing augmentation systems while planning for a staged and equitable rollout of Auracast where appropriate.”

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Auracast and the Future of Hearing Accessibility: Hope, Hype, and Hurdles

(1 May 2025) Better Hearing Australia (nonprofit, consumer-driven hearing health organisation) Until more widely adopted however, it should be viewed as a complement to—and not a replacement for—existing hearing augmentation systems. Auracast is an exciting leap forward that aligns with BHA’s mission of improving access and inclusion for people with hearing loss. To ensure the

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