| Assisted Listening Devices or Assistive Listening | | | | makes family TV time fun and pleasurable to family |
| Device (ALD) helps you hear as well as communicate. | | | | members who can hear normally. |
| You may be wearing hearing aids but there may be | | | | Telephone Amplifying Devices: Are another type of |
| times or situations when they is not enough. | | | | assisted listening devices that can be attached to a |
| Despite hearing aids you could still be having a hard | | | | telephone. It allows you to talk to persons over the |
| time watching TV, a sports show in a stadium, a tour | | | | phone because you can makes adjustment to the |
| guide talking, or communication in a situation where lots | | | | volume and tone of the speaker on the other end. |
| of people talk at once such as a party. This is where | | | | Amplified Telephones: Are special types of telephones |
| the assisted listening devices also called assistive | | | | that cater to the needs of those who are hard of |
| listening devices (ALD) come into play. | | | | hearing. These phones have features such as volume |
| The assisted listening devices work by amplifying | | | | and tone adjustment, and a high phone memory |
| foreground sound without affecting the background | | | | capacity. |
| noise. Perfect for noisy situations, or when a hearing | | | | Cochlear Implants: Are electronic devices that are |
| impaired person is standing at a considerable distance | | | | surgically implanted to the person who is hard of |
| from the speaker and in places with poor acoustics. | | | | hearing. It works giving electrical stimulation to the |
| Types of ALDs | | | | nerves inside the ear. |
| Frequency Modulation (FM) Systems: They can be | | | | Alerting Devices: Are electronic devices that allow |
| likened to miniaturized or a personal radio station | | | | those who are hard of hearing and/or deaf to become |
| however it operates on frequencies assigned by the | | | | aware of what is going on in his surroundings. |
| FCC. It allows the speaker's voice to come to you as | | | | Examples are flashing lights that alert a senior that the |
| if he were speaking in front of you minus the | | | | house is on fire and the doorbell or the alarm clock is |
| background noise. | | | | ringing. |
| They are used in places where a lot of people | | | | To determine the best ALD for seniors, you must |
| congregate to do activities such as classrooms, a | | | | determine their needs. If your hard of hearing senior |
| restaurant, theaters, museums, conference rooms, | | | | loves to visit museums, loves to watch theater or in |
| convention centers to name a few. | | | | general loves to travel, FM Systems are good and if |
| Infrared Systems (IR): They are most often used in | | | | your senior loves to stay at home to watch TV all day |
| conjunction with your television and they can also be | | | | then he probably needs Infrared Systems. |
| used in theaters. The IR system transmits the TV | | | | Cochlear implants are a good choice for assisted |
| signal in light waves into a receiver you have. | | | | listening devices however not every one can afford |
| You don't have to set the volume of your television to | | | | surgical operations and some can't even afford |
| extra loud because you will be the one to adjust the | | | | hearing aids due to the high cost. |
| volume of your receiver to a volume you prefer. This | | | | |