Hearing Aids and Loops
General Resources
- Helpful Aids for Hearing Loss from Living With Disability
- “Like the Mic,” captioned and AD video about using microphones (and sound systems) in all situations
Hearing Aids
- Hearing Aid Compatibility for Wireless Telephones from the FCC.
- "Hearing Aid types and Bluetooth Electronics" from Disabled World.
- "Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Technology" from EmbraceHearing.
- AARP guide to hearing aids
- Making Hearing Aids Affordable
- HLAA Hearing aid checklist
- Flying with Hearing Aids
- How Do Hearing Aids Work? from Make Use Of.
- Putting the Cool in Hearing Aid Design: interesting designs, where is God in design?
- A Love Poem to my hearing aids: while we're at it, have you thought of them as a gift from God?
Hearing Loops
- Hearing Loop.org, "Getting hard of hearing people in the loop"
- How Hearing Loops Work
- "Bluetooth Technology and People who are Hard of Hearing" from Disabled World, May 15, 2012.
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts offers a guide for similar facilities and users, Assistive Listening Devices
- UM Reporter story, "Loop helps worshippers hear the Word" about the new hearing loop system at Spring Valley UMC in Dallas, Texas.
- Read about the new listening system at the UM Church of the Messiah in Westerville, Ohio.
Universal Design and Hearing Systems
- “Hearing Accessibility and Assistive Technology Use by Older Adults: Application of Universal Design Principles to Hearing,” PDF of a PowerPoint presentation about extending Universal Design to hearing systems
- “Universal Design and Barrier-Free Access: Guidelines for Persons with Hearing Loss,” Canadian Hard of Hearing Association
Tim Vermande, revised March 2018, original March 2016
