How to Use Borrowed Assistive Listening System Equipment

Summary

A listener guide separates direct telecoil use of a room loop from using a borrowed receiver with headphones or a neckloop.

Key findings

• For a room loop, users of hearing aids or cochlear implants with telecoils select their telecoil programme without collecting extra equipment. Other listeners can borrow a loop receiver and headphones.
• For FM/RF and infrared, telecoil users borrow a receiver and neckloop and select their telecoil programme. People without hearing aids or without a telecoil programme use a receiver and headphones.
• Listeners may bring wired headphones with a 3.5 mm plug for use with the borrowed receiver.

Limits

Undated instructions without user testing. Legal statements about equipment quantities and charges were not evaluated. Linked videos were not viewed; findings come from the page's written instructions.

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• What does a listener have to do to use each system, and where do people get stuck?Partly answered

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