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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Remote Microphone Hearing Assistance Technologies for Children and Youth from Birth to 21 Years (Includes Supplement A)

From https://assistivelisteningknowledgebase.org/evidence/aaa-2011-hat-guidelines/ · record checked 9 October 2026

  • American Academy of Audiology Hearing Assistance Technology Task Force (Johnson CD, chair; Anderson V, Boothroyd A, Eiten L, Gabbard SA, Lewis D, Thibodeau L)
  • American Academy of Audiology

Independent (American Academy of Audiology, the professional association of audiologists; prepared by the Hearing Assistance Technology Task Force of its Strategic Documents Committee)

Summary

The Academy's guideline on remote-microphone hearing assistance technology for children, issued in April 2008 and updated in April 2011, whose loop supplement was still to come.

Key findings

  • Lists induction loop systems, which deliver speech to the telecoil of a hearing aid, cochlear implant or other hearing device, as one of four delivery options for remote-microphone technology.
  • Gives fitting and verification procedures for ear-level FM (Supplement A) and classroom audio distribution systems (Supplement B), and lists Supplement C, "Induction Loop System Fitting and Verification Procedures", as under development; the text adds that a future supplement will describe neckloop induction technology.
  • Defines transparency as the condition in which equal inputs to the wireless and local microphones produce equal outputs from the hearing device.

Limits

Written for children and youth and mostly about personal remote-microphone systems. A search on 9 October 2026 found no published Supplement C; this record reports only what the 2011 update says.

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American Academy of Audiology Hearing Assistance Technology Task Force (Johnson CD, chair; Anderson V, Boothroyd A, Eiten L, Gabbard SA, Lewis D, Thibodeau L). Clinical Practice Guidelines: Remote Microphone Hearing Assistance Technologies for Children and Youth from Birth to 21 Years (Includes Supplement A). American Academy of Audiology. April 2011. https://audiology-web.s3.amazonaws.com/migrated/HAT_Guidelines_Supplement_A.pdf_53996ef7758497.54419000.pdf (accessed 9 October 2026).

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