Other types are intended for personal use in small settings and for one-on-one conversations. Some are designed for large facilities such as classrooms, theaters, places of worship, and airports. Several types of Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs) are available to improve sound transmission for people with hearing loss.
Your family members speak (one at a time) into the microphone, and the sound is transmitted to your hearing device reducing competing noise, so you can understand them more clearly. There are other personal devices, such as wireless FM devices and propriety devices that are sold by audiologists as ancillary equipment to various brands of hearing aids and cochlear implants.Īn example of how you might use this type of device is communicating with a family member at a large family gathering.
A Pocketalker is an inexpensive, wired, example of this type of device. These small devices capture the sound you want to hear and may filter some background noise. They are hand-held amplifiers with microphones that bring the sound you wish to hear closer to your ears. Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs) are personal technologies that can help you communicate in one-to-one conversations.
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