[il-talk] Fwd: [Colorado-talk] hearing enhancement at state convention

[Araceli Avina]

Araceli Avina, Secretary
Illinois Association of Blind Students
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Bonderson <lbonderson at cocenter.org>
To: Colorado-talk NFBC <Colorado-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 10:46 am
Subject: [Colorado-talk] hearing enhancement at state convention

Following is an Article from the April Braille Monitor, regarding 
hearing enhancement at state convention, written by D. Curtis 
Willoughby.



Again this year at state convention we will offer special arrangements 
for severely
hearing-impaired people attending convention sessions and the banquet.
This will consist of transmission of the public address system signal 
over a special
short-range radio transmitter for the severely hearing-impaired.
The NFB of Colorado will provide special receivers for these 
transmissions to
those needing them.
The receiver-lending will be operated from the sound table inside the 
meeting room.
Batteries for the receiver will be provided.
Anyone checking out a Federation receiver will be given upon request a 
miniature ear bud type earphone to use with the receiver.  Along with 
explaining what will be available, it is important that we explain what 
will not be available.
The miniature ear bud loudspeaker-type earphone will be the only kind 
of earphone offered. The receiver requires a 3.5 mm (formerly called 
1/8-inch) earphone plug, in case you want to use your own earphone(s), 
silhouette, neck loop, adapter cable, etc.
You are advised to arrange for such things well ahead of arriving at 
the convention.
Other than the earphone jack on the receiver, no means of connection to 
a hearing aid will be available from the checkout table.

The receiver does not have a built-in loudspeaker.
Many severely hearing-impaired people already use radio systems that 
employ FM radio signals to carry the voice from a transmitter held by 
the person speaking, to a receiver in the hearing aid. Some of these 
hearing aid systems can be tuned to receive the Federation's special 
transmitters. In this case the hearing-impaired person may simply tune 
his or her own receiver to receive the Federation's transmitter and 
will not need to check out a Federation receiver.

Some audiologists and rehabilitation agencies are now buying digital 
and other FM hearing aids that cannot be tuned to the Federation's 
frequency.
If you have one of these or if you have any other type of hearing aid, 
you should obtain from your audiologist an adapter cable to connect 
 from your hearing aid to a monaural 3.5 mm (formerly called 1/8-inch) 
earphone jack. This will allow you to plug the cable from your hearing 
aid directly into a receiver you check out from our table.
This will allow you to hear as well as anyone else using one of our 
receivers.

The transmitter for the hearing impaired will be connected to the 
public address system so that the signals from the head table and the 
aisle microphones will be transmitted on channel 36 (74.775 MHz narrow 
band FM).
(People must not operate their personal transmitters on channel 36, 
because that would interfere with the reception by others.) This means 
that folks wishing to use their own receivers (rather than checking out 
one of the Federation's receivers) need to have their personal 
receivers arranged so that they can switch between their personal 
channels and channel 36.
Some people may need to purchase replacement or additional receivers.
Caution your audiologist that there is more than one channel 36, and he 
or she
must also verify that your frequency matches our frequency.

Even if your hearing aid is not of the FM type, you may be able to 
purchase a silhouette,
a neck loop, or an adapter cable to couple the signal from a Federation 
receiver
directly to your hearing aid. Your audiologist should also be able to 
help you with this.

The Federation is pleased to offer these services to our severely 
hearing-impaired
colleagues, and we hope and believe that it will again significantly 
improve
their convention experience.




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