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The value of telecoils in hearing aids
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Jul 8, 2020 | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
Hi Jerry. Where do you live? There's a list of hearing loop installations at http://www.hearingloop.org However, I don't think it's as up to date as it should be. I'm from Wisconsin. We have been doing a lot of advocacy and education here, and there are over 700 loop installations in WI. The installations tend to be clustered in areas where HLAA has active chapters. Communication access is included in the Disabilities Act, but it's not a given. People who need it, have to let the places that should have it know they want it. It begins with education. If you live in one of those cluster areas I may be able to point you to someone who has updated information.
Ii would add that you are correct, some hearing aids do not have the size capacity for telecoils to be included. Most in the ear models can accommodate them. The tiniest hearing aids, the in the canal type, may be too small. If you still have your mother's hearing aids, you might consider having them adjusted for you to use when you are in a looped venue. Or, you can request a receiver and headphones to use there.
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HLAA only has four chapters in Oregon, all of them at least two hours away. We live on the coast, where I've not found one single meeting room with an induction loop. Shoot, many of us have zero cell reception (not much reason to have a smartphone); in fact, our town's city hall has no cell phone reception without a password to their WiFi! Neither, for that matter, does Walgreen's drug store, which is only a quarter-mile or so from THE cell tower in town. Our entire community of several hundred homes has zero cell reception, other than a few houses where they can sometimes get reception in one particular location out on their decks above the ocean. Because our town of 8,000 relies 100% on tourism, the majority of people are either unemployed or retired, and the town is losing close to a million bucks every month that nightly rentals are shut down. Ordinarily, we'd have more than 40,000 visitors in town most weekends, most of them paying nightly tax. So, I don't see much hope for any changes here any time soon. We're all scrambling just to try to keep everyone fed.