Hands-free Cell Phone Solutions for Hard of Hearing People
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D.
A man wrote:
I wear hearing aids. Are there any cell phone attachments so that I can wear my hearing aids and use my cell phone in hands-free mode while I am driving?
If your hearing aids have good t-coils in them, then there are two good possibilities for hands-free cell phone use.
One is to get a cell phone that has the standard 2.5 mm hands-free jack and plug in the T-Links that couples to the t-coils in your hearing aids. If your phone has a proprietary hands-free jack, you can likely get the necessary adapter here.
Second, is to get a cell phone that has bluetooth built in and then use a bluetooth neckloop that also couples to the t-coil in your aids. You can see such a bluetooth neckloop here.
My wife’s cell phone has both the 2.5 mm jack and bluetooth built in so I use either option when I use her cell phone. Both work well for me.
