Posts Tagged ‘tcoils’

The Neckloop, An Aid For Your Hearing Aid; More Than Just A Necklace

Neckloop

So you’re travelling and brought your trusty hearing aid to help you out, but there is a problem. You go to the museum and hear the speakers describing an exhibition but at the same time you hear a lot of feedback–making it hard to understand what is going on.

There is a hearing aid accessory that’s a great tool to help you out with feedback–the neckloop.

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Hearing Aid Technology: The Telecoil

So you just got your new hearing aid and its functioning great–you are hearing things that you haven’t heard in a very long time or ever before. Yet a question that you may have is why is it still a little difficult to hear conversations or sounds coming from your telephone or cellular phone?

Well, there is good news, your hearing aid has a special built-in feature that you may not have known about called the telecoil (aka t-coil). Telecoils were created to help in the use of phones for people who suffer hearing loss. Let’s take a look at some of the details:
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