Assistive Listening | Hearing Loss, Hearing Device | Hearing Problems | Assistive Listening Device | ALD | Remote Caption

Make every courtroom "Hearing Friendly"
It is imperative that all participants have an equal ability to listen to the proceedings

Solutions for Class-Rooms

Our Goal:
"to include the student who requires hearing assistance in the classroom experience"

Solutions for Meeting-Rooms

The system's compact and portable design makes it the ideal solution for meeting rooms. Eliminate hard-wired systems and safe resources.

Did You Know?

A 1991 study from the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services reported:

8.6% of our total population, 3 years or older have a hearing problem
Almost 1 out of 4 adults above the age of 55 have a hearing problem
Only 1out of 6, of our hearing impaired population, has purchased hearing aids
People with hearing aids and a large percentage of those without hearing aids, have difficulty listening in large group settings such as churches, auditoriums, theaters and courtrooms

People have the right to hear!

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Improved Lsitening Right to Hear SC-186K DataSheet

2010 AHEAD / PEPNET Conference:

When we attend a conference of this size, it never ceases to amaze me how much organization and planning is required to make everything run so smoothly. My thanks again to Stephan, Tri, Valerie, Oanh, Richard, and the folks at PEPNET for their effort.

Two new Items!

New Receiver

Our friends at Sound Associates have supplied us with a new Infra-red receiver. It is a pendant style receiver that will accept ear buds, headphones, or a neck induction loop. This receiver has better range and receives reflective signals better than previous receivers.

Remote Cart Capabilities

We were able to use the new receiver to input directly into a netbook, using a line input feature. Our SC-186k gathered all voice in the meeting room and broadcasted wirelessly to the infra-red receiver attached to the netbook. The IR receiver acted as a microphone input to the netbook. We then used the hotel’s WIFI to place a call via Skype to call Strada Communications. One of Strada’s captioners, Leslie, faithfully typed all conversation in the room from a remote location. The conversation was received by the netbook’s internet connection and displayed in the meeting room. Nobody had to wear a microphone and all questions were heard. My thanks to Chanel Carlascio for her assistance. I pestered her with questions for 2 months. She saw that this could advance her industry and was gracious.

I was able to make a video in a classroom that will demonstrate what a captioner would hear. Madie Ash is the disability service coordinator at Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, NC. She helped me many times with empty classrooms and also allowed me to sit in on a live classroom. My thanks to you, Madie.

This system would allow a student who required remote captioning the freedom to sit anywhere in the classroom. Also, since the instructor does not wear a microphone and questions do not have to be repeated, the delivery of instruction is not impeded. We “level the playing field” for all students.

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Regards
Ralph Regula
Improved Listening
www.improvedlistening.com
866-654-2139