Assistive Technology in addition to your hearing aids

Patient Information leaflet

What are Assistive Listening Devices?

• Assistive Listening Devices (ALD's) help improve hearing the speech-in-noise.
• ALDs can make sounds louder and can also send sound directly to the listener. For example, they can send a speaker’s voice directly to someone listening in a lecture theatre.
• This helps reduce the effects of background noise, sound distance and room acoustics.

Alerting Devices

• These are devices like clocks and doorbells that will provide a visual alert or vibration to a hard of hearing or deaf person.

Telecommunications

• Amplified (louder) telephones, textphones and television listeners may also help you.

Why aren't hearing aids enough?

• Sounds fades quickly as the distance between you and the sound increases.
• Reverberation (many sounds overlapping at once) can make hearing speech sounds difficult to understand.
• People with a hearing loss need a less noisy environment to be able to hear speech.

Where can you get more information/Assistive Technology equipment?

Social Services - Deaf and Hearing Support Team at Haringey

• Haringey Deaf Service, Winkfield Resource Centre, 33 Winkfield Road, Wood Green, N22 5RP
  Tel: 020 8489 8200
  Email: connected.communities@haringey.gov.uk

Access to Work

• Access to Work can help pay for support at work that you may need because of your hearing, for example:

  • aids and equipment in your workplace
  • other practical help at work, such as a note taker, lip speaker or interpreter.
  • More information is at: https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work

Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) charity

• RNID is the UK's national charity supporting people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.
  Tel: 0808 808 0123
  Email: contact@rnid.co.uk

Connevans

• Connevans is a specialist manufacturer and supplier of deaf and hearing equipment where products can also be purchased online at: https://www.deafequipment.co.uk/

• You can email askaquestion@connevans.com or
  Tel: 01737 247 571 for a product catalogue.