This week is Deaf Awareness Week.
People with hearing loss often benefit from an assistant listening device. The SC Assistive Technology Program provides one-month loans of assistive listening devices and two-week loans for iPads with apps. For more information go to:http://scatp.med.sc.edu/loan.htm .
Personal Sound Amplification Products
-The user wears headphones or ear buds connected to a small receiver with built-in microphone. The receiver boosts the level of sound in the environment for the listener. There are versions of this that amplify the television
FM Systems
-A frequency modulated (FM) system can be used by an individual or a classroom or other large area. The speaker wears a transmitter with built-in microphone and the user wears a receiver with headphones. The receiver boosts the level of the speaker’s voice for the listener.
Check out these apps for people who are hard-of-hearing or deaf:
Transcribes telephone calls in real time.
Uses the device’s microphone and amplifies surrounding sounds.
Uses the device’s microphone and amplifies surrounding sounds.
Uses the device’s microphone and amplifies surrounding sounds.
A sign language keyboard.
Translates sentences up to five words in length into American Sign Language.
Voice recognition software that presents the spoken word as a text or e-mail.
These companies have notably increased their use of closed captioning:
YouTube lets you make your own videos closed captioned.
Need more information about resources for people who are deaf? Contact the SC Commission for the Deaf at:http://www.scadservices.org/ .
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