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Cell Phones For the Deaf - Data Only Cellular Plans

July 25th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

For deaf individuals or for those with significant hearing loss, cell phones can still be a great way of staying in touch. By selecting hearing aid compatible cell phones, those with a mild to moderate hearing loss can often make use of these handy communication devices especially when a neckloop, amplifier, or an induction coupler known as Hatis is added. For deaf individuals or those with a more severe hearing loss, the ability to use text messaging features is critical and the use of voice calling frustrating or useless. In such instances, paying for costly voice plans makes no sense when the individual can only make use of the data features.

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Cochlear Implant Can Help The Deaf

July 20th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Over the course of many decades, there have been a variety of methods to deal with hearing loss and provide ways for people who have hearing problems to enjoy better hearing levels. Hearing aids have been one of the primary forms of assistive listening devices and they have undergone many changes and improvements thanks to high-tech advancements. One option to hearing aids for the profoundly deaf has been cochlear implant surgery, which has become more well-known and widely accepted in recent years.

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Hearing Test 101

July 14th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

A hearing test is a method of evaluating the sensitivity and accuracy of one’s hearing. This is usually done by an audiologist using an audiometer. Audiometers are standard equipment for ENT clinics. They consist of embedded hardware with ear phones or ear plugs and are sometimes controlled by a computer to measure one’s hearing. Audiologists are the only professionals allowed to conduct such a test.Before the actual test proceeds, the audiologist will ask the person that will be undergoing the test about his or her history with hearing impairment. The questions would center on what type of typical noises the person is exposed to regularly, including how loud and how often they occur. The audiologist would aim to find possible causes of the damaged hearing. Questions about past illness should also be expected, as there are a lot of physical disorders that affect hearing loss. Some diseases or illnesses indirectly cause hearing impairment. The audiologist needs to know about these things to come up with a solution that is as accurate as possible.

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Hearing Aids For All

July 7th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

When people start having problems with their hearing, they usually turn to hearing aids for them to hear better. The old days featured what looked like ‘ear horns’ or funnel shaped devices that amplified sounds whenever people needed to listen to something. It was unwieldy but effective.Fortunately breakthroughs in technology have made it possible for us to do away with those the odd-looking device. These days, hearing aids are commonly electronic devices that are worn on the ear like your everyday ear phone. The primary design had a rectangular battery pack that connected to the ear piece with a long wire with the battery pack was usually placed in the user’s pocket. However the microphone used to amplify sounds wasn’t placed very strategically so this design tended to be flawed, often suffering disturbances from the user’s clothing. Later on, they came up with hearing aids that had a small battery inside the actual ear piece.

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Hearing Impaired Rights

June 29th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Many people look at basic sign language as if it were not even a language at all however sign language can bridge the communication gap between those who can hear and those who cannot. There should be equal opportunities for both deaf and hearing people. Deaf people are weakened in our society by the effects of discrimination and exclusion. In order to achieve a greater sense of the deaf culture, hearing people need to recognize American Sign Language in its own right. The principle of empowerment of the deaf community by broadening the number of people with whom they can communicate, would lead to greater independence for the deaf community. Think about it something as simple as going out with your hearing friends for dinner and a movie can be quite difficult for a deaf person. How many local theatres offer aid to the deaf? How many times have you seen a movie in the theatre with closed captioning? How often have you seen wheelchair accessibility in the theatre? Chances are you have always seen wheelchair accessibility but never seen any deaf services offered. Our deaf communities are being discriminated against and a lot of people don’t even know it.

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Bluetooth Hearing Aid - A Magical Solution

June 26th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

New technological has bought us great features, that we once thought were only available on sci-fi cartoon program like the Jetsons. One of these is the evolution of blue tooth. Then, add this will the blue tooth hearing aid solution, and its easy to see how it can be referred to as a “magical” solution, when you compare it to the wired experience of a few years ago.

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