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What is an Assistive Listening Device?
What kind of ALD's are there?

What is an Assistive Listening Device?

An Assistive Listening Device (ALD's) is any type of device that can help a hearing impaired person function better in their day-to-day communication situations. An ALD can be used with or without hearing aids to overcome the negative effects of distance, background noise, or poor room acoustics. So even though you may have a hearing aid, ALD's can offer greater ease of hearing (and therefore reduced stress and fatigue) in many day-to-day communication situations. A combination of both hearing aids and ALD's results in better listening and better communication.

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What kind of ALD's are there?

There are many examples of ALD's including the following:

• Personal listening systems (pocket talkers; telelphone amplifying devices for cordless, cellular, digital and wired phones)
• Amplified answering machines
• Amplified telephones with different frequency responses
• Paging systems
• Computers
• Wake-up alarms and lights

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