Assistive Devices

  by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. January 12. 2016 If you want to have unparalleled performance in your home loop system, then the new Contacta HLD3 loop driver is for you. I used to say that the Univox CLS-1 was the Cadillac of loop drivers (and it was and we sold hundreds and hundreds of them), […]

by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. For a number of years I maintained a web page listing the various facilities of which I was aware in the USA that used hearing loop systems. As the number of looped facilities snowballed, it became harder and harder to keep this list up to date. Now, with the advent of […]

  by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. June 11, 2015   There are a number of assistive technologies that help us (people with hearing loss) hear beautiful, clear sound. In addition to loop systems, there are FM (and other RF and bluetooth systems), infrared systems and direct wired systems. All of these work well for us, although […]

by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. 1.      Hearing Aids Do Not Correct Hearing to Normal You might think that getting hearing aids would give hard-of-hearing people normal or near-normal hearing again. Surprisingly, the truth is that hearing aids only give you back about half of the hearing you have lost. This means that if you have an […]

  © 2014 by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Hooking a home audio loop amplifier to your flat-screen TV isn’t as simple as it used to be to hook a loop amplifier to the older-style picture-tube TVs. There are more options available, and thus there are more hoops to jump through. However, don’t despair, it is still […]

  Loop systems are currently in the news. Here are some examples to show how loop systems are catching on. (Most recent listed first.) On October 12, 2017, Stu Nunnery wrote a first person account, Hearing Loops Make It Easier to Hear With Hearing Aids, of his pleasure using hearing loops in order to hear theater […]