Depending on the severity of your hearing loss and your communication needs there are alternatives to traditional analogue and digital hearing aids, known as assistive listening devices.
Your hearing loss may not be significant enough to warrant a hearing aid in some cases. These situations may involve telephone, radio, television, or the inability to hear the door chime, telephone bell, and alarm clock. Special devices have been developed to solve these problems.
Like hearing aids, assistive listening devices and alerting devices make sounds louder. Typically, a hearing aid makes all sounds in the environment louder.
Assistive listening devices and alerting devices can increase the loudness of a desired sound, like a radio or television, a public speaker, or an alarm system, or may make an auditory alarm (such as a smoke signal) into a visual alarm (such as a strobe light).
The main advantage of assistive listening devices to traditional hearing aids are that they can be bought over the counter on online in the UK without prescription, and are usually available at the fraction of the price of a hearing aid and often come with a with a risk free trial period. Many Assistive listening devices can be fitted into either ear and adjustment of volume and programming can be done by yourself .
Revolutionary new assistive listening device called the "Eavesdropper ITE" will amazingly fit in either ear thanks to an ingeniously designed universal fitting joint. This means, no measuring, no testing and no waiting. Clearer hearing at the fraction of a price of a hearing aid. Learn More >>
