Wireless communication devices

In some challenging and noisy listening situations where understanding becomes a problem, even the most advanced hearing aids may not be the ultimate solution. Here comes the role of wireless communication devices to overcome the distance problem and the background noise.

With those wireless communication devices watching TV, talking on the phone or mobile, listening to music and understanding speech in a noisy restaurant or pub, and attending meetings or lectures is no more a problem.

As for young listeners or kids, it is well documented that their speech development and academic achievement depends on their ability to hear. Studies have shown that wireless communication devices have the best results when implementation is made early in the amplification-fitting or cochlear implant process.

Just think of all the noisy playgrounds and the acoustically poor classrooms where the kids spend most of the day to realize the importance of having such communication devices. What are the benefits of those devices for kids in schools?

• They allow the child to hear the teacher’s voice at an appropriate and constant intensity level. The sound level is consistent regardless of the distance between the child and the teacher.
• They allow the teacher’s voice to be heard more prominently than background noise, such as toys, papers, chairs scraping… This is true even when the background noise is closer to the child than the teacher’s voice.