Device

Hearing aids are electronic devices that amplify and process sound for people with hearing loss and are the most widely used treat...

Over the counter hearing aids are a category of hearing aids that can be sold directly to consumers without a medical evaluation, ...

A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted device that provides a sense of sound to people with severe to profound sensorineural...

BAHA systems transmit sound through skull bone directly to the better cochlea, bypassing the ear canal and middle ear. Indications...

For single-sided deafness, CROS, Contralateral Routing of Signals, places a microphone on the deaf ear, wirelessly streaming to a ...

Active middle ear implants, like the Vibrant Soundbridge, attach an electromagnetic floating mass transducer to the ossicles, driv...

Assistive listening devices are tools other than hearing aids that help people with hearing loss in specific situations. Alerting ...

A wire loop around a room, theater, church, ticket counter, broadcasts audio as a magnetic field picked up by the telecoil in hear...

A telecoil, or T coil, is a small coil of copper wire inside many hearing aids and cochlear implant processors that picks up magne...

Remote microphone systems place a microphone close to a talker and transmit the voice wirelessly to the listener, using FM radio, ...

Captioning services convert speech into text so that people who are deaf or hard of hearing can follow spoken content. Communicati...

Personal sound amplification products, PSAPs, are wearable electronic devices that amplify sound for people without hearing loss i...

Earmolds are custom shaped pieces made from an impression of the ear canal and outer ear, used to couple hearing aids to the ear, ...

An auditory brainstem implant is a surgically placed device that bypasses both the cochlea and the auditory nerve, stimulating the...

Ear tubes, also called tympanostomy tubes, ventilation tubes, or grommets, are tiny cylinders placed through a small incision in t...

Captioned telephones show a written transcript of what the other person is saying, in near real time, while the user listens and s...