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Learn where you can hear better with your hearing aids, cochlear implants, and borrowed headphones using hearing loops, FM/RF, infrared, and Auracast broadcast systems throughout Colorado. And it’s the mighty telecoil that wirelessly connects you!
Colorado Lists-Assistive Listening Systems
In Colorado, there are 900+ assistive listening systems already installed in libraries, theaters, council chambers, event spaces, courtrooms, places of worship, senior centers, and more.
- All places. Types of places you can find assistive listening systems (this website)
- Boulder County list of FM, infrared, hearing loop, and Auracast broadcast systems. Boulder pdf. Word version also available-please email us. You can also make your own list for your county template ALS (.docx)
- Colorado Hearing Loops List: (Colorado pdf version) and (Colorado Word version) and Colorado map and List of all hearing loops in other US States and Canadian provinces (this website)
- Colorado State Capitol. Assistive Listening Systems. 2 versions: Capitol pdf and Capitol Word
- Colorado assistive listening – statewide list: hearing loops, FM/RF, infrared, and Auracast broadcast). Working draft, incomplete list. Please email us.
- Colorado Media (this website) of installations and use.
Colorado Hearing Loss Statistics
- Statistics of hearing loss in Colorado (graph of the image above, one page, pdf)
Consumer Handouts
How the hyperlinks work:
- image or title -> opens a new webpage with more information
- download icon at bottom -> direct download
Articles
Colorado Resources
Consumer groups
- “Hear Me Now” hearing support group. City of Thornton Active Adult Center, third Wednesday of the month at 3 pm. Email info@chaShedd.org to join the mailing list for monthly reminders and the topic of the month. Or call the City of Thornton Active Adult Center (303) 255-7850.
- HLAA (Hearing Loss Association of America) Colorado Chapters (website) Information, education, support, and advocacy.
Nonprofits and agencies
- Colorado Disability Opportunity Office (website). Point of contact for state agencies, private sector organizations, and the public to advance the integration and inclusion of the disability community.
- Colorado Courts, requesting accommodations (webpage, State of Colorado)
- SENSE (Colorado Division of Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and DeafBlind) (website). 1) Requesting CART in rural areas and 2) communications resources and tools, such as amplified and captioned phones, smartphones, and tablets, as well as ring signalers and neckloops or headsets and specialized equipment at no charge to qualified persons with hearing loss.
- Relay Colorado. No-cost captions for consumers during conference calls.
Colorado Laws
- Colorado Laws
- 30-day return policy for hearing aids House Bill 20-1219
- SB25-152: Health-Care Practitioner Identification Requirements. Beginning June 1, 2026, this bill requires advertisements for healthcare-related services that identify a healthcare practitioner by name must also identify the type of state-issued license, certificate, or registration held by the practitioner. Read the actual SB25-152 bill
- Colorado DORA (Department of Regulatory Agencies)
- Colorado consumer protection issues. Talk with your audiologist or hearing instrument professional to answer your questions, such as telecoils or using assistive listening systems. If you have a concern, it is likely you will get it resolved with your hearing healthcare professional. However, if you cannot, the State of Colorado can help with consumer protection issues
- SUPREME COURT OF COLORADO, Office of the Chief Justice, Juror Service for Hearing-Impaired People
Colorado Complaints Resources
- Complaint resources
- Templates. Copy, paste, and adapt templates for submitting a complaint, positive feedback, or constructive feedback.
- Places to file
- General overview. Where to submit formal feedback about problems (this website)
- Captions. Reporting Closed Captioning Issues (CDDHHDB info sheet)
- Civil rights: disability discrimination in public accommodations. Colorado Civil Rights Division (website) Deadline to submit: 60-day time limit from incident date
- Simple form: 1) contact info, 2) what type of disability (“hearing impairment” with optional details-you are NOT required to disclose your medical history), 3) what happened (statement of discrimination), and 4) how you would like to resolve the complaint. You can upload attachments (optional).
- Learning about the process
- Free monthly webinars “Public Accommodation 101” (1.5 hours)
- FAQ
- About Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), mediation and conciliation
- United States Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado. Civil Rights
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Health facilities complaint contacts
Contact
- Email: info@chaShedd.org
