Venues that have assistive listening technology installed must provide receivers for people who need to use them. In looped venues, those with telecoil equipped hearing aids simply have to turn their personal technology to the telecoil mode to connect. No receivers. Others who have no hearing aids or hearing aids w/o telecoils can use the receivers and headsets the venue provides to get the sound direct to their ears. However, to use those headsets/headphones, which are either ear buds or typical over the ear headsets, you will have to remove your hearing aids so they don't block the sound.

Telecoils are amazing. It's a tragedy that the people who sell hearing aids are not required to demonstrate how telecoils work. A few states have laws that require that but only a few. I encourage you to go to http://www.hearingloop.org to learn more. There is a list there of locations that have loops installed.

Note: If venues have FM or IR systems installed, everyone will need a receiver. People with telecoil equipped hearing aids will use a neckloop to connect rather than a headset. A neckloop fits around a person's neck and is plugged into the receiver the same way headsets are.

In all cases, there must be a transmitter microphone that transmits the desired sound.

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