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Hearing - Disability Awareness Information and Resources

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About Hearing Loss About Hearing Loss and Assistive Technology for Persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Arizona Resources for Persons who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing National Assistive Technology Resources for Persons Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Learn About Hearing Aids from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders [NIDCD Fact Sheet]   Purchasing a Hearing Aid - Consumer Checklist [HLAA FACT SHEET]   How to Read an Audiogram   An Overview of Hearing Loss – Its Signs, Causes, Implications and Solutions   Guidelines for effective communication with deaf, late deafened, and hard of hearing people   American Sign Language (ASL) Basics   Deaf Culture   If you can read this, it might be too loud   About the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACDHH)   Common Words Related to Hearing Loss and their Definitions

Hearing AT

Assistive technologies often used by people who are deaf or hard of hearing.


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Video Communications Technology

Video communication technology can be used to connect an American Sign Language (ASL) user directly to another individual who uses ASL, or to an interpreter who can mediate a conversation between the ASL user and someone who uses a spoken language, such as English. These can be standalone pieces of equipment used solely for video communication, or applications that are downloaded to a phone or tablet.

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Alerting Technologies

Alerting devices identify certain events in an environment such as a doorbell, fire alarm, or alarm clock and notify a deaf or hard of hearing person using sound, vibration, light, or a combination of the three.

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Captioned Phone

Captioned telephones have a built-in screen that displays real-time text captions of the conversation for individuals who are hard of hearing.

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