Hi All - the Eastridge Presbyterian Church is the first looped church in Lincoln, NE. In addition to the standard signage, they came up with what I think is a...
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Ellen Semel
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May 17, 2013 4:12 pm
Thanks, Dave. Great speech. I shared it with the 21 volunteers on our NYC Loop Committee. ellen ... From: Loops_and_Telecoils@yahoogroups.com ...
Hello David and the group ! Here in Albuquerque, NM, I'm working with one of the larger churches in our area on behalf of which several members have inquired...
David, I would expect you would have gotten a standing ovation after your speech. Or did they all just have puzzled looks on their faces. Ha ha. Great...
In message <kn5etu+tr9d@eGroups.com>, dated Fri, 17 May 2013, David ... That's telling 'em! -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk They took me...
David - Your remarks are outstanding!  Thank you so much for being a great advocate in the name of hearing loops and telecoils! Georgia Advocacy Chair ...
Yesterday, after enjoying a tour of Oticon USA's NJ headquarters (where 500 people work in an ultra-modern building), their Focus on People awardees were given...
I agree, this is an excellent approach. I'd be interested in how our HLAA National group approaches this. When setting up the National Conventions, do they...
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Ellen Semel
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May 14, 2013 4:16 pm
As a newcomer to this forum, I applaud Julie Olson's comments. We need to be involved at a grassroots level, and slowly we are doing that here in NYC with 21...
Ditto David! The difficult part is that it takes people, large numbers of people, to get out there and insist on communication access. We've all been 'over the...
Amen to Brad. A hotel in my city recently hosted a fund-raising banquet for 300 people, at which some people--having found it difficult to hear--have let it...
One of the ways the hearing Loss Association of Sarasota was so successful in getting venues looped here (70+ to date) was to change the conversation from...
Redundancy is a huge issue with music. When we have those songs in our memory base, they are much easier to enjoy. My granddaughters are both vocalists in...
In message <C36E9EA32BA147729F78AC370F085C02@LorettaPC>, dated Wed, 8 ... No doubt, but they were surely not musicians listening very critically to the...
John: That is what I hear from folks. Rather than trying to tweak the hearing aids over and over again to get good music sound, best to use a gadget along...
In message <20130508092454.VONIV.190283.imail@fed1rmwml114>, dated Wed, ... I almost totally agree with you, and have used that argument to help make the...
Amen, Terry! Well said! At least 50 percent of a loops success depends upon correctly adjusted telecoils. Lou ... Many years ago we installed a simple,...
Many years ago we installed a simple, inexpensive perimeter loop in a small church using their spare PA amplifier and an impedance matching transformer that...
Spencer makes good points. All users involved in validating a hearing loop must have correctly configured hearing aids and be familiar with telecoil...
John, I'll go on the fence here and categorically state that "some loop is better than no loop." I know one local very small church that because of budget...
In message <kmb9fg+o9lc@eGroups.com>, dated Tue, 7 May 2013, pspencern ... A portable field strength meter should be supplied as part of the original...
... This gives a good recital of the effects of a digital hearing aid, optimised for speech intelligibility, on music. There is not much point in trying to...
Hi all, After installing loops for dight years I've found that having someone with hearing aids "test" a loop is more a reflection on how the audiologist set...
Yikes; I'm so far behind.. lots happening here and the SUN is OUT. I hope I can back track and find that college article. I'm attending a program at UW Friday;...
As the owner of an audiology practice and now a looping company I always test the system to Iec standards and once installed by the people wearing hearing...
Melinda, the problem you had was probably caused by clicking on a very long URL that had been altered by quotation marks. Before clicking on a URL, it is...
Is it practiced? I have never been asked to test a system that was being installed. Because of my long time involvement in HLAA, and a lot of visibility in...
