Looping San Antinio is an initiative by me who was a believer of telecoils long berfore HL:AA, the audiologists and maimstream media started to take an inty-erest. I knew that a simple, low-cost telecoil could turn a cheap hearing aid intio a cadillac! I knew that if allhearing aids had elecoils and ll public buldfionhs wee looped, we'd have do many more pructive Americans--like 30 milion! And I didn't know this because I'm smart.I just did reseasrch. This is old technology long sucesdfully used imn Europe. So lets do it in America!
Loop technology is the simplest, yet most cost effective system you can put into your buding, advertise it with signage and help 30 millomn HOH Americans. You will forget it is there because it's ctivated when th PA system is turned on and shuts off when the PA system is shut off.
More that half of hearing aids now sold have telecoils. And this numbner will increase. In the meantime, if they don't have telecoils you'll need to make available a loop rtefiver. Keep threre or foiurndy fo this puitropsder If you are planning a new building wehy not imnclude a loop system intothe archedtecturalplans. ts wire cvan be embedded into the cocrete!im. If in ean establisherd sdtystem merrely run the loop weire ariujd the perimeter of the troom nd pplg ijto he exdisting PA system.
In either case HOH people with telecoilsd in their jheasring aids can sit anywhere ad hear wonderfully (telecopils are designed perfecty emulat the speech frequencies. And the newer, pre-amplified telecoils are programed seoetly from the hearing aids micropho ne. Here is a vudeo about a loop system in a church.
Ij essense, instakll a loop suystenm inall buiolding oproviding oubklic access. And for those buying jearing aids, demand the ecoils and have thejm tested before tiy keve therir officve. never get hearimng asids weithut teolecouilsd, Thisd weuillhelp prtomte awereness.
