Walt Disney World Co. has developed a pioneering program to provide synchronized captions via wireless technology to help guests with hearing disabilities experience select theme… Read More »Disney provides wireless captioning devices
Visual Communications technology has the potential to greatly increase communications access for people with hearing loss. The field is not yet well defined, and applications… Read More »Visual Communications and people with Hearing Loss
TTYs (also called Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf – TDDs or Text Telephones enable hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral deaf persons to communicate… Read More »TDDs (TTYs) for people with Hearing Loss
One of the really exciting current technologies is speech recognition. Many organizations are working on this technology, and there is significant progress being made. We… Read More »Speech Recognition may benefit people with hearing loss
For general information about ALDs, this is the place to be! If you’re interested in information about specific devices or where to buy one, please… Read More »Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs) for people with hearing loss
Aural Rehabilitation services include a wide variety of things that help people cope with hearing loss. In most other situations in which a person loses… Read More »Aural Rehabilitation for People with Hearing Loss
Editor: “Hear the World”, a foundation established by Phonak, will be supporting charitable organizations and projects focused on helping people with hearing loss. Tenor and… Read More »“Hear the World” to Help People with Hearing Loss
Rocky Stone Hearing Device Exhibit Presentation Editor: The folks at the Redwood City, CA SHHH-Peninsula group decided that their region needed a center where people… Read More »How to Establish an Assistive Listening Device Center for People with Hearing Loss
A Response to Alice Hagemeyer’s Open Letter by Nancy Kingsley Dear Alice, Thank you for sharing your views regarding the job announcement for GLAD (sic)… Read More »Hearing loss service agencies ignore hard of hearing, late deafened and oral deaf
One of the questions that we often hear from parents with hearing loss is, “How does my hearing loss affect my children?” Parents tend to… Read More »Hearing Loss and Children