Using Telecoils in Your Cochlear Implant & Bone Anchored Devices

Summary

A US advocacy group's notes on where the telecoil sits in current cochlear implant and bone-anchored sound processors, and how users switch to it.

Key findings

• Opens by saying all cochlear implants and bone conduction devices have telecoils, and that most users prefer the telecoil in the processor itself rather than in an accessory, because it is easier to use and to remember.
• Its maker-by-maker notes show the telecoil is not always built in: Advanced Bionics' Naída CI Marvel has a built-in telecoil once the audiologist enables it, and Cochlear's Nucleus 8 has a telecoil program selected by button, remote or app.
• For Cochlear's Kanso and Baha 6 processors it points to the telecoil setting on the Mini Mic 2+ accessory. For MED-EL it lists a built-in telecoil in Sonnet 2, an accessory (AudioLink XT) for Sonnet 3, a telecoil adaptor for Rondo 3 and an accessory (miniTek) for Samba.
• Describes microphone and telecoil mixing settings, such as 50/50 to hear a neighbour while listening to the loop, or telecoil only to cut background sound, and notes that some apps let users set their own mix.

Limits

The publisher calls the manufacturer information it found "scant" and asks readers to send more; it gives no data on how many processors in use have a built-in telecoil, and its opening statement sits uneasily with its own list of processors that rely on accessories. The page shows no date (its metadata gives first publication on 1 July 2024 and a last change on 13 October 2025); models change, so the list may be out of date.

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centerforhearingaccess.org/how-use-telecoils-ci

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Cited in

• Which hearing devices can receive which systems?Open
• How many listeners carry a telecoil, an Auracast-capable device or a smartphone?Disputed
• Are telecoils switched on and set up well enough for loops to work?Not reliable yet
• What reaches a cochlear implant user in a venue, and how well?Partly answered

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