Oh Shoot! I’ve done it again. Another hour watching YouTube videos. It started out innocently enough. I followed a link to check out a video and then checked out another, and another.... Read More
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June 5, 2009 8:18 am | 
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Recently, a reader from Australia wrote about her problems with buzzing and interference when using her cell phone with a loopset. She wants to know if you can bypass hearing aid telecoils completely and plug your hearing aids directly into the cell phone.... Read More
Tags: Amplified Phones, Cell Phones, Telecoils
ALDs, amplied phones | admin | 8:08 am | Comments (0)
Mary, my neighbor, has a hearing loss. While we waited for our steaks to grill, we sat on the deck and talked about the problems of hearing on the phone. Mary says that her father had his vintage jazz recordings restored to their original clarity using modern signal processing technology. This technology removed the crackle and hiss from the music and bought it back to its original clarity. She wonders why this technology can’t be used to make phone conversations clearer.... Read More
Tags: Amplified Phones, Hearing Loss Issues
ALDs, Hearing Loss Issues, amplied phones | admin | 7:47 am | Comments (0)
When my husband and I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we often entertained out-of-state family members by taking them to a centuries-old Acoma Indian village located about 40 miles west of Albuquerque.... Read More
Tags: FM Systems, Hearing Loss Issues
ALDs, FM Systems, Hearing Loss Issues, personal amplifier | admin | 7:45 am | Comments (0)
Tags: Telecoils
ALDs, Telecoils | admin | 7:39 am | Comments (2)
For most people, watching TV is a pleasure. You’d have to pry the remotes out of their cold, dead, popcorn-flavored hands before they’d give them up. Yet, it’s different for people with hearing loss; trying to follow TV dialog is fatiguing rather than fun. Eventually, they give up this relaxing past time.... Read More
Tags: Hearing Loss Issues, TV Systems
ALDs, Hearing Loss Issues, TV listening system | admin | 7:31 am | Comments (0)
A few years ago, a professional organization asked me to speak at their annual conference in Dallas. Although delighted, I worried about not hearing questions from the audience. I knew that a personal FM system could help me and wanted to give this system a try.... Read More
Tags: ALDs, Hearing Loss Issues
ALDs, Hearing Loss Issues, hearing assistive technology | admin | 7:23 am | Comments (0)
On Friday evenings after work, a group of us would get together to see a movie. Not wanting to be a party-pooper, I’d often attend these movies even though I couldn’t hear the dialog. But believe me, it is BORING to sit through a movie for 2 hours and not know what’s going on.... Read More
Tags: ALDs, Captioning, Hearing Loss Issues
ALDs, Captioning, Hearing Loss Issues | admin | June 3, 2009 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
Several years ago, my husband and I stood outside waiting for the doors to open at an Indianapolis antique show. It was a single digit, bone-chilling, frostbite-eating-up-your toes kind of morning. Once safely inside the building, I noticed that many people were walking around with their hands covering their ears. I said to my husband “It’s obvious that these people didn’t wear warm hats. Their ears must really be stinging.” My husband looked at me in amazement and said: “Don’t you hear the fire alarm blaring?”... Read More
Tags: Smoke Detectors
ALDs, smoke detector | admin | 11:56 am | Comments (0)
My cousin lives in a nursing home. She has developmental disabilities, chronic health problems, and a severe hearing loss. She hates where she is and wants to move.... Read More
Tags: ALDs, Hearing Loss Issues, TV Systems
ALDs, Hearing Loss Issues, TV listening system | admin | 11:41 am | Comments (0)
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