> Subject: Sound Advantage Conference Folder
> I have loaned the above piece of kit to a student who has bi-lateral
> sensory-neural hearing loss and wears 2 post aural hearing aids, to give
> us some feedback/assessment of its performance.
>
> His comments follow and I would be interested to hear from anyone who
> has any other feedback.
>
> "To hear from the folder you will have to put your head over the folder
> to make the most of it.
>
> When using the folder it will pick up just about everything you do not
> want to hear. For example, if windows are open you can hear vehicles
> driving by, and if people make noises with their pens, etc.
>
> If the room was totally quiet then yes it is good to use but you might
> as well use your hearing aids instead as there is not a lot of
> difference in the sound level. So I think this is a waste of time -
> why? Because my microphone on the front of my hearing aids will pick up
> the sound from the front of my face, where the folder will pick up just
> about sound it hears."
We have a staff member who is partially deaf and was provided with
one of the above by the PACT. She found it quite useless and quickly
gave up on it.
Dave Laycock
Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
University of Westminster
72 Great Portland Street
London W1N 5AL
tel. 0171-911-5161
fax. 0171-911-5162
WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
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