Senior Living Communities
Possible Assistive Listening System Locations
These systems should be available during a variety of settings, to provide accommodations for individuals with hearing loss.
- Classroom spaces
- Guided tours on field trips: mobile FM tour guide systems with receivers that folks can use either headphones or neckloops for those who have telecoils in their hearing aids/cochlear implants.
- Fitness rooms.
- Information Desks/Customer Service: a built-in counter hearing loop
- Movie theaters and performing arts auditoriums
Handouts-Hearing Loss
How the hyperlinks work:
- image or title -> opens a new webpage with more information
- download icon at bottom -> direct download
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Handouts including captioning, ADA Effective Communication, assistive listening, communication access …
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(60 pages) A terrific resource for all things hearing loss. …
Handouts-Assistive Listening Systems
How the hyperlinks work:
- image or title -> opens a new webpage with more information
- download icon at bottom -> direct download
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(2 pages) People with hearing loss often struggle to understand …
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(1 page) Basic instructions to use a hearing loop, FM/RF, …
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(17 minutes) March 2024. Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD. Over 1.3 MILLION …
Resources
Articles and documents
- National Council on Aging. 5/13/22. Hearing Health for Older Adults: What Older Adults Need to Know About Hearing Loss
Center for Hearing Access
- Neckloops. All about neckloops (this website)
- Paragraph template and checklist. Describe your assistive listening system on your webpage. Promoting Your Assistive Listening System, with Checklist by the Center for Hearing Access (2 pages, pdf)
- Templates for facilities/sites: graphics, audio pre-event, handouts, ideas.
- Lists of hearing loops across the United States and Canada.
- Library. Zotero online library of articles, websites, and examples for senior living communities (webpage)