Assistive Technology Hearing Aids

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Would you believe that a loss of hearing can ruin school performance an even ruin a good relationship? There are an estimated 30 million people in the U.S. that suffer from hearing loss and about 5 to 10% of those problems can be treated by surgery.

However, for many of those people, surgery is nat an option that will take care of the problem so other means of assitive technology must be used to eliviate the problem.

Hearing Aids:

There are many types of hearing aids and depending on a person's disability and level of concern, a hearing specialist will provide you with the proper hearing device. Sometimes a person will require two of the hearing aids, one for each ear, if te disability call for it.

Hearing aids today come in such a wide variety and price range. there are conventional analog hearing aids which are made with a certain frequency tha can be adjusted to the test results given to you by your audiologist.

There are also analog programable hearing aids which have a microchip that can be programed to your particular hearing disorder and it can even be adjusted for certain types of environments like resturants, ball games or even libraries! the most expensive hearing aid is the digital programmable kind which basically converts sound waves into light waves. This allows the device to automatically adjust to a person's surroundings. The benefit of this type of hearing aid is that it is self programing and adjusting for whtever type of situation you are in.

PDA Hardware

There are all sorts of different types of computer hardware products that can help people with hearing problems. Just to highlight a clear example is the Gus Wallet Speaker. This set of speakers hooks up to your PDA and alows you to hear sights and sounds that eminate from your PDA

Gus Speakers Photo

Computer Software

Microsoft has a series of tools and aids for users with disabilities. Most of them are integrated right into the windows platforms. To ind out more about these types of aids and tools, click on the Microsoft link.