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From: Vixen.*@f11.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Vixen *)
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Subject: Re: FM ASSISTIVE LISTENING
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Date: 22 Feb 90 21:37:41 GMT
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Hi Jack,

Yes, after your last message, I would imagine that I probably do
know more about PocketTalkers now than my Voc Rehab counselors! I
hadn't known they came in different models.

I think it is possible that Sutter Hearing is recommending some
kind of a FM system that has remote microphones (like for
classrooms). I don't really know.

It sounds like the P.T. would work for me on one to one situations,
which is often a problem for me, and, as you know, my regular
hearing aid will not descriminate sounds, but amplify all.

Believe this if you can, my Voc Rehab counselor recommended that I
do not go anywhere where there is ambient sound! Consider that I
like to go outdoors (I live in the city, lots of traffic noise), I
like to go where there is loud music, I like going to class
(college), I like to go bowling and who knows what else, I guess I
would have to give up a hell of a lot of my life to avoid "ambient
noise" since all of the above are situations which make it very
hard if not impossible, for me to understand the human voice.

So far, I am just so unimpressed with Voc Rehab!

Keepin' the faith!

.                         Vixen

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