VISIT OUR TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE STORE -AND SAVE!

The Hearing and Speech Center's Technology Resource Store is a great place to find assistive listening devices and accessories that can help you hear better in a variety of situations. Come see our phones, alarm clocks, TV listening devices and much more. Our expert staff will help you navigate the options to find items that will work for you. Call to make an appointment today!

DO YOU WEAR A HEARING AID AND USE A CELL PHONE?

New laws requre that you use a hands-free device if you are driving and using your cell phone.

The Artone Bluetooth LoopSet enables hearing aid users to avoid the interference from the mobile phone by removing the phone to "safe" distance from the hearing aid.

The Artone Bluetooth LoopSet is on sale at the Hearing and Speech Center Technology Store for $165 (normally $185). This offer is only good until July 30th!

In a time of a call a signal from the mobile phone is wirelessly sent to the Bluetooth LoopSet, it gets processed, cleared and amplified and then sent to the user's hearing aid. The hearing aid processes the signal once again and adjusts it to the user’s personal level. Output signal is cleared by cutting out unnecessary background noises. It is amplified and then the signal sent to the user’s handset.

Unique design enables the hard-of-hearing to use the headset with their hearing aid.

Details:
Version 1.2 & 2.0 Bluetooth compatible

15 Hours continuous talk time, 500 hours stand-by

Signal range up to 10 metres

Call for an appointment, and check it out for yourself!

NEWS

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS IN THE NEWS

A terrible incident brings CIs into the news: A three year old had his CI stolen by theives who thought it was a bluetooth device. CBS 5 came to the Hearing and Speech Center to talk about children and cochlear implants. See the video here.

LITTLE HELP MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE!

Help us meet our challenge grant!

The Hearing and Speech Center has received a challenge grant from the Miranda Lux Foundation for $10,000 to support the Family Communications program.

The Hearing and Speech Center can only claim this money if we raise a matching $10,000.

We need your help!

A donation to the Family Communications program will be matched dollar-for-dollar until we reach our goal. Please make a contribution today to help us reach our goal of $10,000.

For more information on our challenge grant, or to make a donation, please contact Leslie Castellanos 415-921-7658 x 45.

About the Family Communications Program
The Family Communications Program is a counseling program that provides individual guidance, information and support to families of children with hearing loss. We help families understand their educational options and learn about the resources available to them. The first few years are critical to a child with hearing loss. The Family Communications program helps kids get off to a solid start!

If you are interested in participating in the Family Communications Program, please contact Shannon Simonson, at 415-921-7658 x48.

HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ON FORUM - KQED RADIO

KQED radio held discussion of hearing loss, the latest technologies, technologies of the future and the challenge of hearing loss.

Our very own Director of Audiology, Rupa Balachandran and Director of Professional Services, Laura Clark were special guests on the show, along with Ronda Bonati of the Hearing Loss Association of America and Dave Fabry, of Phonak Hearing Systems.

Download the MP3
(Windows: right-click and choose "Save Target As." Mac: hold Ctrl, click link, and choose "Save As.")

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To submit a story, please email to dkennedy@hearingspeech.org

EVENTS

WISHLIST GIVING

Have you been looking for a way to help the Center?

Maybe you can help us with our wishlist. We need some generous angels to help with purchasing or sponsoring the following items:

• Desk chairs ($150/each)
• Vacuum cleaner ($100)
• Carpet cleaner ( $800)
• Lounge chair for parents to hold sleeping babies during testing ($250)
• Digital sound recorder ($200)
• Digital camera ($300)
• Digital video camera ($400)
• New classroom floors ($3,000 per classroom)
• Toilet for ladies' room ($700)
• Handheld vacuum ($30)

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