There are many TV listening systems available now. They all have a transmitter that connects to the audio output jack of the TV and sends either an infrared signal or radio frequency signal to a receiver that you wear.... Read More
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
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
Happy New Year everyone! My wish for 2006 is probably impossible, but here it is anyway: I wish that all public places provided Assistive Listening Systems (ALSs) or real-time captions wherever and whenever it is necessary to hear. Also, I wish that people with hearing losses and the people who hand out the ALSs knew enough about them to make them successful first time users.... Read More
The best Christmas gifts are the ones that make you wonder what you ever did without them. That’s the way I feel about the assistive listening and alerting devices that are listed below. Although these products work magic for me, you might find other products that work just as well or better for you.... Read More