Many patients benefit from hearing aid accessories to maximize their speech understanding. At Shohet Ear associates, we offer the latest assistive technology to best meet the needs of each patient.
Remote microphones are devices that are worn by a patient’s communication partner. They enhance speech understanding in noisy backgrounds or when listening from a distance. Sophisticated remote microphones, called FM Systems, are commonly used by children in classrooms, ensuring a child has as much access to their teacher’s voice as possible, even when the classroom is noisy.
Do you struggle to hear certain shows on television? Do you disagree with your family members or partners about the volume of the television? We also offer TV Streamers, which are devices that enable direct TV-to-hearing aid connectivity.
We also work with CaptionCall Telephone Systems. CaptionCall is a free service that will install a captioned landline telephone in your home or captioning service on your cell phone.
For more severe hearing loss, we can assist with finding home alerting systems for safety.
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Millions of people who wear hearing aids have a difficult time with the use of digital cell phones. The problem is the way that sound is emitted over a wireless network. The conversation is transmitted using radio waves creating an electromagnetic field around the cell phone. These radio waves or radio frequency emissions (RF) interfere with the desired signal. To complicate matters, each cell phone carrier has their own technology in transmitting calls over a wireless network. Some people may be able to use one service provider more easily than another.
The FCC has established rules for service providers and cell phone manufacturers that require them to offer at least two phones with reduced interference, or ensure that one-fourth of the phones that service providers sell, produce less interference. Manufacturers and carriers will also have to provide some phones with telecoil coupling capability so that they will work with certain types of hearing aids. By February 2008, the FCC is stressing that fifty percent of all digital cell phones produced must have less interference.
For assistance with finding a hearing aid compatible phone and service provider, click the link below:
Wireless Phones and Hearing Aid Accessibility
Let us show you how you can:
Connect to your favorite devices like your television, iPhone or iPad, and use your hearing aids like wireless headphones.
Contact us today for more information or to schedule a private session either in our office or at your home.
