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Bulletin and Newsletter Samples About Induction
Loop Systems
Bulletin Sample:
Hearing assistance. For the hard of hearing, X Church
offers a loop system. Hearing aid wearers with a “T”
(telecoil) setting can now hear the service broadcast directly
through their hearing aids. Others desiring hearing assistance
may check out a portable receiver and headset. For more information
about loop systems, including home TV room applications, visit
www.hearingloop.org.
Church Newsletter Sample:
X Church Offers New Hearing Assistance System
Hard of hearing people can dream of a future when hearing
aids might also serve as personalized, wireless loudspeakers.
At X Church, that future is now.
Thanks to our newly installed “induction loop system”—a
special amplifier that transmits a magnetic signal through
a wire that encircles our sanctuary—hearing aids with
telecoils (a “T” switch) can now serve as in-the-ear
loudspeakers. Unlike other assistive listening systems that
require a headset, a loop system is inconspicuous. It delivers
sound customized by one’s own hearing aid. And it requires
no checkout and return of portable receivers. Given a choice
between a) having to check out, wear, and return a headset,
and b) receiving convenient, personalized sound directly through
one’s hearing aids, most hard of hearing people understandably
prefer the latter.
That is why most most churches in Britain and Scandinavia
(though as yet few in the USA) are now looped. In these countries,
unlike the USA, many people with hearing loss therefore benefit
from hearing assistance.
With most American telephones now capable of broadcasting
improved sound via hearing aid telecoils, the time seems ripe
for looping American churches as well. As our hard of hearing
parishioners purchase new hearing aids over the next few years,
most will purchase telecoils (which are available at a nominal
cost with all but the tiniest of aids). This means that our
loop system will serve a gradually increasing number of people
(much as the first television stations served a steadily increasing
audience after giving people a reason to purchase televisions).
In the meantime, others needing hearing assistance may check
out a portable receiver and headset, which comes with all
hearing assistance systems, including loop systems.
Loop systems work in venues ranging from cathedrals and arenas
to home family rooms. Would you like your TV to likewise broadcast
personalized sound through your in-the-ear loudspeakers (leaving
other family members to choose their own volume from the TV
speakers)? This is easily and affordably possible with a small
home loop system. For more information about the technology
and its institutional and home applications, visit www.hearingloop.org.
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