How to Access Improved Hearing in Large Venues with a Hearing Loop:
A facility is equipped with an Induction Hearing Loop if you see the international sign seen here to your left.
Attendees who have a hearing aid or cochlear implant with a telecoil can directly access the audio to help overcome the effects of background noise, distance, and reverberant acoustics in the room.
To use, set your hearing aid or cochlear implant to the “T” or “telecoil” setting.
Make sure to sit in the designated area that is looped. You can tell where by the blue international symbol of access for hearing loss (picture to the left).
If you have hearing aids or a cochlear implant and you are not sure if the device has a telecoil, ask your hearing healthcare provider. If the telecoil is inside, request that you learn how to activate it.
For attendees who do not have telecoils inside their devices or who do not have hearing aids at all, a number of personal assistive listeners/headsets are available for loan. Please ask to borrow one from a volunteer or AV expert. Please see below for a picture of a personal assistive listener and a user guide.
Make sure to put personal assistive listener around your neck and keep in a vertical position. The listener will not pick up the signal when it is held horizontally.
The personal assistive listeners/headsets can be used with your own headphones as long as long as it has a 3.5mm jack.
Another option to accessing the hearing loop system with your own system is to use your smart phone with the free 'otojoy' app downloaded. Special 'otojoy' t-coil headphones are required.
