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Hearing the TV with hearing aids

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@daveshaw

I don’t know where you live but in Denver movie theaters look at me like I am crazy when I ask if they have telecoil. I have that setting on my IPhone and never once have I been able to use it.
How about the background noise in restaurants. I would guess almost every restaurant I go to exceeds the decibel level allowed by law. Sometimes even the wait staff can’t even hear me well enough to take my order.
We are the forgotten disability in this country and anyone who doesn’t think so is kidding themselves.
Auracast is great if venues would actually install it. I am not holding my breath.
Why doesn’t Medicare view hearing loss as a disability? Why is it more important to enable disabled people to have access to a toilet or a water fountain than it is to have the ability to hear in public.
Let’s all get angry and do something.

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@daveshaw

There is so much terminology and acronyms!

So with your comment: "movie theaters look at me like I am crazy when I ask if they have telecoil." that's probably true: most staff don't know what a telecoil is - that's the component in your hearing aid to connect-nothing that movie theaters are responsible for.

Instead, could I suggest requesting "assistive listening" or "captioning" Here are the links for the accessibility page for the movie chains
https://centerforhearingaccess.org/place-movies/