How to Communicate Over the Phone if You Are Hearing Impaired
Hearing impairment is a condition in which you may suddenly experience total or partial loss of hearing sounds. As a result, it can make communication over the phone difficult. According to Forbes, hearing aids are useful devices for the hearing impaired. Today, hearing loss affects more than two-thirds of American adults 70 and older. Therefore, devices for hearing aids help make communication effective for people with hearing impairment.
However, if you don't have a hearing aid device, there are still ways to effectively communicate on the phone. You can directly speak into the mouthpiece of your phone when calling while the phone is held at a reasonable distance. In addition, speak in a quiet place without much background noise. Consequently, this prevents the drowning of your voice by other sounds. Below are more phone communication tips you need to embrace if you are hearing impaired or communicating with a hearing-impaired person.
1. Install Apps in Smartphones of Hearing Impaired People
With technological hearing aid advancements, you can use your smartphone to communicate like any other person. Using a smartphone installed with an appropriate application can eliminate the communication hurdle you face with hearing loss. For instance, an app like the Beltone HearMax is compatible with Android and Apple devices to enable your smartphone to connect to your hearing device. Additionally, your Beltone Trust hearing aids are pairable with more than one smartphone. However, you're allowed to connect one smartphone at a time.
2. Use of text to communicate over the phone
Text messaging is one of the technologies that continue to revolutionize communication among the hearing impaired. Though text messaging is widely used not only for deaf people but also for all people due to its multifaceted convenience, it has particularly grown in popularity and reach among the hearing impaired. Therefore as more people embrace communication through SMS, the hearing impaired find it easy to communicate freely. In addition, most cell phone manufacturers have designed phones that facilitate texting, complete with QWERTY keyboards that are user-friendly. Consequently, texting is widely used among the hearing impaired and deaf community, including schools for the deaf where students are allowed to have mobile devices.
3. Use a Bluetooth-Enabled Phone
Bluetooth-enabled phones allow you to connect your phone to hearing aids directly. Furthermore, this device can automatically redirect signals to your hearing aid. In addition, Bluetooth technology allows modern complex wireless Beltone hearing aid devices to connect to personal electronic devices, thereby enabling direct sound streaming. You can also stop streaming to your Beltone hearing aids if you want to return to everyday phone use. Finally, Bluetooth is secure in data transfer as it uses high-frequency radio waves.
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Though the loss of hearing of any magnitude can be stressful, today's technological advancements have made communication by hearing-impaired more accessible. As seen above, several hearing aids depending on the magnitude of your hearing impairment, are available.
Feel free to contact our Michigan office through (888) 417-2130 and schedule an appointment today. Our specialists at Beltone Skoric Hearing Aid Center are experienced and can assist you in improving your communication over the phone if you're hearing impaired.
Resources:
https://www.inclusivecitymaker.com/smartphone-apps-deaf-people-2020/
https://www.okdrs.gov/node/4924
https://www.hearinglink.org/living/partners-children-family-hearing-people/how-to-communicate-with-a-hearing-impaired-person/
