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).