The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has entered a legally binding agreement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to improve support for deaf customers accessing its services by telephone. Two advisers raised a complaint with the EHRC on behalf of four hearing-impaired people who needed to use the telephone service with a […]
• Hearing loops and telecoils are still the only technology that meet all the needs of hearing aid users, including intelligibility, discretion, ease of use, transient use and availability. • Hearing aid manufacturers make telecoils available in 80% of the models they produce. • There is a significant difference between being able to connect to […]
Lip-reading AI and Elon Musk’s “Neuralink” could deliver near-perfect audio and skip the ear entirely. While scientists are racing to solve the hearing loss epidemic through biotech, advances are being made in the fields of AI and machine learning that may present alternative options for those that want to regain their hearing… Read on, via […]
COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, has now been linked to many long-term complications, including heart damage, lung damage and neurological disorders. One emerging area of research is whether hearing loss and tinnitus can result from coronavirus infection—either as a symptom or as a complication days or weeks later. We do know that many different […]
Conversor is committed to supporting the hearing-impaired community, and for over 15 years, it has been designing and supplying ALDs to those suffering with hearing loss. Here, CEO Darryl Schofield talks us through the business’s strong history, its plans for the future and why its ethos is something very close to his heart… Can you […]