Assistive Technology
Sound Systems and Hearing Loops
- A note from your colleagues with hearing loss: just use a microphone already, Jessie Ramey in Chronicle Vitae (February 2020)
- What You're Saying When You Say “I don't need a mic”, Unitarian Equal Access
- “Like the Mic,” captioned and AD video about using microphones (and sound systems) in all situations
- Guide to hearing loops, HLAA (September 2020)
- Hearing Loop.org, "Getting hard of hearing people in the loop"
- “Universal Design and Barrier-Free Access: Guidelines for Persons with Hearing Loss,” Canadian Hard of Hearing Association
- How Hearing Loops Work
- Hearing Loops Don't “Just Happen”
- Get in the Hearing Loop (HLAA, June 2021)
- Hearing Loops on Google Maps (Hearing Tracker, August 2022) and Google Maps Now Includes Hearing Loops (HLAA, December 2022)
- How Hearing Loops Revolutionized my World, DHM Autumn 2022 Newsletter, Ibrahim Dabo, GBGM
- Resource UMC: reprint of How Hearing Loops Revolutionized my World
- Hearing Loop at Bothell UMC, WA (2022)
- First UMC of Red Wing Hearing Loop, Minnesota AC (November 2018)
- UM Reporter story, "Loop helps worshippers hear the Word" about the hearing loop system at Spring Valley UMC in Dallas, Texas. (May 2012)
- Read about the listening system at the UM Church of the Messiah in Westerville, Ohio (2012).