April 7, 2009
Do Zounds Hearing Aids use telecoil, or have the ability too?
David asked:
My grandfather has pretty much almost lost his hearing. He has tried many different brands of hearing aids, and has recently started using Zounds. At first they work as good as other brands, but he has continued to loose hearing, really only “hearing” what he can read on the speakers lips. I was investigating options, speaker systems, and teleloops - which require the hearing aid to use telecoil. I couldn’t find anything useful on their website, not even in the .pdf manuals.
My grandfather has pretty much almost lost his hearing. He has tried many different brands of hearing aids, and has recently started using Zounds. At first they work as good as other brands, but he has continued to loose hearing, really only “hearing” what he can read on the speakers lips. I was investigating options, speaker systems, and teleloops - which require the hearing aid to use telecoil. I couldn’t find anything useful on their website, not even in the .pdf manuals.
Also, if anyone can recommend something like a speaker system that the phone could be plugged into, and/or set infront of the tv..something with multiple uses, or something to that effect 
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks…
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Comments on Do Zounds Hearing Aids use telecoil, or have the ability too? »
Saucy @ 6:24 pm
From their site, it doesn’t look like they have T-coils… which seems pretty odd to me. Although they are a good company, this is the downfall to the “one size fits all” approach to hearing aids. If he feels like his hearing has changed, he needs to go get evaluated again. Progressive hearing loss that fast is not normal.
That said… it doesn’t appear they have ANY capability to be used with any assistive listening devices as there are no ports or boot spots that would have allowed him to use an FM or infrared system (had to call 3 different stores to get this answer… lol). This makes me kind of sad, as they can be very helpful. What I’d do is have your grandfather go back and have the hearing aid reprogrammed after he has his hearing rechecked. Also, the hearing aid may have lost some of its power, so they should be able to check the integrity of the hearing aid, too. Good luck!