2018 Independent Living Conference. Ellen Perkins Hard of Hearing Skills Trainer

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1 Hearing Assistive Technology Independent Living Conference Ellen Perkins Hard of Hearing Skills Trainer

2 Agenda O Introduction O Why Aren t Hearing Aids or Cochlear Implants Enough? O Listening Needs & Situations O Hearing Assistive Technology (HAT) O All About Apps O Non-Technology Solutions O Questions

3 Who Am I?

4 Why Aren t Hearing Aids or Cochlear Implants Enough?

5 1) Background Noise

6 2) Reverberation

7 3) Distance O How loud the sound is compared to ambient noise and how far away it is from you. O Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants work best in a 6-8 foot range.

8 Listening Needs & Situations

9 TYPES of Listening Situations Face-to-Face Media Telecommunications Alerting

10 WHERE does the listening take place? Home Work Community Other

11 Identify Challenging Situations O Does the problem situation occur in: O Quiet locations O Noisy locations O Both? O Does the situation happen when you are communicating: O One-to-one O In a small group (2-4 people) O A large group (5+ people) O Under all three circumstances

12 Home Work Community Listening Needs & Situations Assessment Face-to-Face Communication Family dinners with a lot of people and cross-talk Conference calls Large group meetings Church Media Telecom- munications Phone Alerting Doorbell Fire CO Desk faces wall don t know people behind me Other YouTube auto captions

13 Prioritize O Review the table O Which situations are most important to you? O Rate them (most to least important)

14 Examine Solutions O HAT = Hearing Assistive Technology O Non-technology solutions

15 Hearing Assistive Technology HAT

16 What is a Telecoil/T-coil? coil?

17 Headphones, Silhouettes, Neckloops

18 Assistive Listening Devices O Personal devices (ALD s) O Input from microphone or devices (TV, phone, computer) O May use Bluetooth, streaming, FM, infrared, induction loop or direct connection O Large area devices O Transmission from central sound source (theater, church, conference) O May use FM, infrared, induction loop or direct connection

19 Personal FM Systems

20 Large Area Loop System

21 Induction Loop Systems (one- on-one): one): Counter loop

22 Large Area Infrared Listening System Source:

23 TV/Stereo Listening Systems

24 Amplified Phones

25 Cell Phones O FIRST STEP: What are your hearing aids/ci compatible with? O Look for hearing-aid-compatible (HAC) phones O Will you listen to the phone: O Acoustically (M) = microphone mode O Telecoil (T) = telecoil mode O "M3", "M4", "T3" or "T4 = HAC compliant O Personal choice O Try before you buy Source:

26 Wireless Caption Services

27 Captioned Telephones

28 How Caption Telephones work

29 Captioned Telephone Options Landline VOIP Mobile Web Browser CapTel (some models) iphone Android (Hamilton CapTel ) CaptionCall ipad only ClearCaptions ipad/ipod/iphone Android InnoCaption Х Х iphone Android PC/Mac (Hamilton CapTel or Sprint CapTel ) Х PC/Mac Х

30 CART Communication Access Realtime Translation

31 Video Communications

32 Environmental Alerting Systems O Wakeup/alarm clock O Doorbell/door knock O Telephone/Videophone/Cell Phone alert O Fire/Smoke/CO alarm O Burglar alarm O Child monitoring O Window/Door opening O Timers (appliances, cooking) O Caretaker situations O Doormats and Bedmats

33 Alarm Clocks

34 Fire/Smoke & CO Alarms

35 Doorbells/Door Knocker

36 Baby Crier/Monitoring

37 Telephone/Videophone/ Cell Phone Alerts

38 Combination Systems

39 Smart Home Technology O Amazon Alexa/Echo O GOOGLE Home/Home Max/Mini O Apple Home Kit

40 All About Apps

41 O What are they? FAQ s O Software applications for your smart phone or tablet O Types of Apps? O Desktop, Mobile, Web O Where do I get them? O Google Play Store for Android O App Store for Apple O What will it cost me? O Free O One time charge vs. Monthly use charge

42 Apps for the Deaf and O There are many! Hard of Hearing O Hearing aids or CI s themselves may have an app (control volume, programs, etc.) O Speech-to-text O Measuring sounds around you O TV O Environmental alerts O Live theater O Hearing loss simulator

43 Speech to Text Apps Dragon Dictation Live Caption AVA iphone ipad Android Pair with Bluetooth devices iphone ipad Android Pair with Bluetooth devices Stream the app to a TV (for larger groups) iphone Android Free: talk with 1 or more friends up to 5 hours/month $29.99/month: no monthly limit

44 Decibel X O ios and Android O Pre-calibrated, accurate and easily portable sound level meter O Standard measurement range from 30 to 130 db O FREE

45 SoundMeter O Follows OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) guidelines O Gauges the level of sound around you and provides visible alerts when the decibel reaches a dangerous level or when your exposure has gone on too long O Safety screening tests for home appliances and kids toys, as well as a calibration feature for your home theater or speaker system O $19.99, requires ios 5.0 or later for iphone, ipad or ipod Touch

46 TV Louder O Uses the iphone microphone to listen to TV sounds, enhances and amplifies sound O Use your cell phone with neckloop, headphones, or earbuds O Intended for entertainment and shouldn't be used in place of a hearing device O Help you hear the TV without having to constantly adjust the volume or make others watching with you uncomfortable O Free (requires ios 7 or later for iphone, ipad or ipod Touch)

47 Tunity O Audio from any live TV program streamed right to your phone O Must be connected to Wi-Fi or a cellular network (3G, 4G LTE, etc.) O Requires your location (ios Location Services) O Currently the app supports 100 channels O Use the app s camera function to take a picture of the show you re watching, and the audio will sync to your phone automatically O Listen through headphones (or stream it directly to your hearing aids with smartphone-compatible models) O Free (Apple and Android)

48 Sound Alert O Technology by Braci O Alerts user to ringing phone, doorbell, beeping of the microwave, smoke alarms, baby crying, and honking cars, etc. O Your phone will flash or vibrate when it hears noises that you specify O Free (Apple and Android)

49 Galapro O Galaprompter O Captions LIVE theater shows O Subtitles O Closed captioning O Dubbing (another language) O Audio describe O Amplification O Requires Wi-Fi connection O Free (iphone, ipad)

50 Hearing Loss Simulator O Enter your specific type of hearing loss and play back to family/friends how you perceive their speech O Helpful tool to share what it s like to live with hearing loss! O $1.99 (Requires ios 4.2 or later for ipad)

51 Non-Technology Solutions

52 Friends and Enemies of Effective Communication Round tables Friends Carpets and low ceilings Good lighting Mouths that move, good elocution Ability to control the space Enemies Long rectangular tables Rooms with all hard surfaces Glare behind speakers Mustaches and beards Background noise, especially conversations

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54 Contact Information Ellen Perkins

55 Resources O Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) O O Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA) O O Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) O