Hearing Loop

St. Mary
Catholic Church

Winneconne & Omro

Now has a Hearing Loop

For hearing aid users equipped with a T-coil

For more information visit: www.foxvalleyhearingloop.com
For questions about your hearing aids
visit your hearing provider
or email audiologist Juliette Sterkens, AuD jsterkens@new.rr.com

Fox Valley as you may know, is one of the few geographic areas in the country where hearing loops are now becoming mainstream and providing improved access for people with hearing loss.
As part of this initiative, the HLAA-AAA Task Force) is inviting hearing aid and hearing loop users to participate in a short online survey. It takes only 5 minutes to complete. Click on the link below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QBF86ZH

What is an induction loop
and how does it work?

Hearing Loops allow people who wear hearing aids with built in T-coils or T-switches to directly receive the sound from the microphone in their hearing aids without having to pick up a separate listening device. If you wear hearing instruments you will need to find out if your devices come equipped with this wireless receiver built in, in order to hear better in church. Most of the time you can access the T program by pushing a button on your hearing aid or remote control. If your hearing aids do not have a separate T-program it may have to be activated by your audiologist.

In Europe thousands of hearing loops are in use, including one at Westminster Abbey

Why are hearing loops needed if I already own hearing aids?

Digital hearing aids have significantly improved in the last decade, but they still do not restore hearing to normal. Therefore, understanding speech in reverberant places such as auditoriums or churches is often still difficult. Hearing aids equipped with T- coils can help reduce this problem.

When a hearing aid is set to “T”-coil, the instrument becomes a personalized speaker in the ear for the sounds that are picked up by the microphone of the public address system. That way sounds are heard clearly, without distortion or background noise.

St. Mary Catholic Church

All Are Welcome

Winneconne & Omro

Now has a Hearing Loop

For hearing aid users equipped with a T-coil

As part of this initiative, the HLAA-AAA Task Force) is inviting hearing aid and hearing loop users to participate in a short online survey. It takes only 5 minutes to complete. Click on the link below:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QBF86ZH

What is an induction loop and how does it work?

Why are hearing loops needed if I already own hearing aids?

Digital hearing aids have significantly improved in the last decade, but they still do not restore hearing to normal. Therefore, understanding speech in reverberant places such as auditoriums or churches is often still difficult. Hearing aids equipped with T- coils can help reduce this problem.

What is an induction loop
and how does it work?