OTC Hearing Aids –
Why No Telecoils?
On October 17 a new era in hearing help opened for the roughly 30 million American adults with mild to moderate hearing loss. That was the date when FDS approved medical grade over-the-counter hearing aids went on sale in a variety of retail locations but someting was missing - telecoils.
This update reports on some of the surprises and disappointments that accompanied the new devices. Click on the link below for details.
Bluetooth Assistive
Listening Gets Closer
Millions of people have incorrectly assumed that Bluetooth® could serve the audience in a theater just as FM, IR or Hearing Loops can. The folks who developed Bluetooth have finally made that assumption almost true - the technology now exists to use Bluetooth in as assistive listening system. They call it Auracast. What is still missing, though, is the system
To learn about how this game changing development could possibly impact assistive listening use the link below.
