Hearing Informed

Iphone is not Hearing Aid Compatible

From the point of view of a hearing impaired person, the iPhone sucks. The features that would make the phone more accessible to the hearing impaired are within the internal chip’s capabilities but they have been purposely crippled by the software that runs the phone. Paula Rosenthal at Hearing Exchange has this to say, Apple’s [...]

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Wall Street Journal Article on How Cochlear Implants are Changing Deaf Education

Paul Davies, a reporter from the Wall Street Journal, wrote an article in which he argues that cochlear implants are transforming deaf eduction. He points out that cochlear implants have been around for two decades. However, it was only seven years ago (and five from when the article was written) that the U.S. Food and [...]

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