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From: rudy@mtqua.att.com (Rudy Vener)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: HEARING AIDS
Message-ID: <14861@handicap.news>
Date: 14 Apr 91 13:40:11 GMT
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Index Number: 14861

In article <18602@bunker.isc-br.com> Vixen@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Index Number: 14743
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>Bonnie wanted to find away to take my hearing aids and Telex off
>and just hook me into some kind of earphones. She heas'nt tried it
>yet, but I am afraid if she does that, that all I will hear is a
>bigger jumble of noise than I already hear even with my aids on!
>Bonnie is an excellent Audio Engineer with very very impressive
>credits in her background, but I am not sure she understand about
>hearing loss. It seems like she is approaching this from a "making
>it louder will make her hear" point of view.

Hi Vixen,

Show Bonnie your audiogram and tell her that THIS is the frequency
response she will need to compensate.  That should give her the
general idea.

BTW.  I just applied to Seeing Eye and Guiding Eyes.  (I like to do
comparison shopping).

Rudy Vener  AT&T BTL  uucp: att!mtqua!rudy