Category: Telephone accessibility

Of hurricanes and hearing aids

David Kirkwood Action for Hearing Loss / Action on Hearing Loss / Advocacy / Advocating for patients / AuD / audiogram / Audiologic rehabilitation / Audiologists / Audiology / Audiology ethics / Audiology Practice Principles / Best practices / Communication with hearing loss / Consumer issues / Consumers / Doctor of Audiology / Education / Hearing / Hearing aid fitting / Hearing aids / Hearing care providers / Hearing healthcare / Hearing Science / Hearing screening / Private Practice / Psychology of hearing loss / Successful fitting / Telecoils / Telephone accessibility / Testing hearing / Verification

By David H. Kirkwood This post was first published August 30, 2011.  As we have already witnessed the start of the 2016 season we still draw comparisons of expectations and reality. Watching how my fellow New Yorkers reacted to Tropical Storm (née Hurricane) Irene over the past weekend reminded me of the tremendous power of…

Read More

iPhones and Hearing-Aid Compatibility: Re-Defining Accessibility?

Gael Hannan 20 Comments FCC and hearing loss / Hearing loops / Hearing loss / iPhones and telecoils / Kathi Mestayer / Telephone accessibility

Kathi Mestayer takes a look at the possible changes to rules for wireless hearing aid compatibility, including Apple’s request to be exempt from putting telecoils in their iPhones.   By Kathi Mestayer     Apple has certainly been in its share of dust-ups lately.  Now there’s one that has raised eyebrows in the hard-of-hearing tech…

Read More