Dear folks, I have just read and signed the online petition: "Captions on Online/Downloadable videos" hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online...
Dr. Kochkin et al - I have found the Marke Trak survey's information to be invaluable in my efforts to raise awareness of hearing loss and in advocating for...
To Whom it May Concern, As an advocate for the Hard of Hearing, I regularly work to raise awareness and understanding of hearing loss and what can be done to...
Dang good points, Steve! One of the Costco audiologists called me a short while back and asked where his client could get a neck loop. He didn't tell me who...
Dr. Kochkin - thanks for your reply. I'm please and impressed that you took the time to respond. Interestingly, I had just read your comments on a wireless...
On the questions page of the Comfort Audio devices, it mentions that someone with a pacemaker should not wear the neckloop. I can understand the logic, but...
Jay, I think we covered this on this list a couple of months ago, but don't remember if any conclusions were made. I had e-mailed someone I know, who has a...
Warning: I'm not an electrical engineer or a doctor but I'll share some thoughts on loops and pacemakers based on a quick Internet search and on the physics...
... And yet there is NO documented evidence that it has EVER been a problem--at least I've never come across any and I've been keeping my eye out. What is...
Thank you very much, Steve! Loretta ... From: Steve Frazier To: Loops_and_Telecoils@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:03 PM Subject:...
Hi Shera- Thanks for the catch. I never updated the information in my address book. :) This time I used the e-mail address from my address book so I used the...
I just realized what a good mystery novel this could make. Let's say that a hard of hearing Wife wants her pacemaker using husband dead ... All she'd need to...
Many have predicted that BlueTooth would be enhancing our assistive technologies. This new product is intriguing (and no I don’t know any more than is in...
This has probably been discussed here, but when I returned home after two weeks away there was a lot of mail and reading on which to catch up. It tickled me...
Hi all - As part of our outreach efforts, we're putting together a brochure on loops to mail out to the HLAAbq mailing list of about 1,100 names. Before doing...
Very nice, Stephen. Artistically attractive and not too cluttered (My brochures and web pages tend to have too much junk on them, but yours is well done.) I...
Steve Frazier: Your brochure idea is downright wonderful! I like the many pictures (certainly worth thousands of words). If you would have room for one...
Steve - thanks for your input. You wrote: I prefer the term "telecoil" (rather than "T-Switch" since it describes the pickup device, not the invocation method...
Loretta - thanks for the comments - don't know if we could squeeze in another picture and text for a meeting but may try and see how it looks if I can find an...
Hi Everyone- TDI published my article in their annual Blue Book. The article is entitled, "11 Advocacy Tips for Parents".  Best, Janice Janice L. Schacter ...
Three of us from HLA-SV went to a meeting of residents at a local retirement community Thursday afternoon. The attraction was a talk and demo by CTAP...
For those who have not seen it already, here's the piece in the current People magazine on list member Janice Schacter, one of the magazine's "HEROES AMONG...
Hi Esther: Your experience with 40 people with no telecoils in their aids is what we experienced also, hence we discovered the need for legislation. An...
In speaking to HOH groups, when I ask that question (Do you have a telecoil in your HA?) it is not uncommon to receive the responses: "I don't know", and/or...
There must be some statistics comparing the number of disabled requiring wheelchair access to the number of people with hearing loss requiring hearing access...
