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| Telephone
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Listening to the
telephone for the hearing impaired
The
following
are ways you can use the telephone:
- Use
the
telephone without hearing aids.
This may require that you take a hearing aid off. For some people, this
works well and telephone understanding is fine. If you do this and use
a telephone in a noisy place, turn off the aid in the outer ear - but
there is no need to remove it.
- Use
an
amplified telephone supplied from the telephone company.
These are quite efficient, and you can control the loudness to suit
your needs.
- Some
people are able to use the telephone in abnormal manner by holding the
telephone up to the hearing aid at the ear. This is more
true of in-the-ear and in-the-canal hearing aids than for
behind-the-ear or other type hearing aids.
- Determine IF
your
hearing aids have a telephone pickup function:
- Not all hearing aids have a telephone switch.
Most
behind-the-ear hearing aids do. Very few in-the-ear and essentially no
in-the-canal hearing aids have this feature.
- The telephone switch is not as essential for
persons with
mild and moderate hearing losses as for individuals with severe hearing
losses.
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 However, even
persons with mild and moderate losses who use
assistive listening device in group situations or large meeting areas
to improve their ability to understand, could use this feature in their
hearing aids.
If your hearing
aids have a telephone pickup function:
- Move the switch to the "T" position before using the
telephone. The important thing to remember is that the telephone
receiver should be close to the hearing aid microphone, rather than
your ear.
- Move the telephone receiver around the hearing aid
case to obtain the strongest signal.
- You also may have to turn up the volume when you use
the telephone pickup feature.
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Successful
use
of telephone pickup function for your hearing aid depends on:
- The telephone
induction coil of the hearing aids must be strong enough.
- The telephone
must produce a strong magnetic field.
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- The location
of the telephone pickup coil in the hearing aids must be
properly oriented.
- Interfering
sources such as power lines, transformers, and flourescent
lights can make the use of this feature impossible.
When you are finished using the telephone, move the switch to the "M"
(microphone) position for normal hearing aid use. You may have to turn
the volume down also.
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