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Letter to Audiologists
and Hearing Aid Dispensers
Please feel free to adapt this sample letter to audiologists
and hearing aid dispensers for your use.
Dear [Audiologist or hearing aid dispenser],
I write you and other local hearing specialists to give you
the heads up on an exciting new initiative. I am launching
an effort to support Holland-Zeeland churches, senior citizen
centers, schools, and other nonprofit institutions in installing
induction loop systems.
At present, people whom you equip with telecoils enjoy no
opportunities to use them, apart from phone use. By the end
of next year, that should change dramatically. Next week I
will be inviting local institutions to an informational meeting
on loop systems, with associated publicity in the [local newspaper(s)].
With additional support from the world's leading manufacturer,
our aim is to create a model looped community, and then to
welcome regional and national publicity for our success. Success
will, however, require support from you and your colleagues
as you outfit your future clients.
From my experience with loop systems in my TV room and in
various UK venues (which now include selected grocery check-out
lanes, bank teller counters, drive-up windows, and virtually
all churches, cathedrals, and theaters), I can understand
why loop systems are mandated by the UK Disability Discrimination
Act, which decrees that by the end of 2004, “Any business
or organisation providing a product or service to the general
public must have an Induction Loop System fitted wherever
information is verbally provided.”
I trust this is good news for you, because if we succeed
(and we’ve already got a number of churches and organizations
asking when our effort will launch), you should have new customers---people
who will be motivated to get hearing aids or to replace older
model hearing aids with T-coil equipped aids. If you will
henceforth include T-coils in hearing aids sold by your office,
I will do everything I can to ensure that your clients will
find them useful in most churches and in most Holland area
public venues with PA systems.
For further information, I include an article appearing in
the Church Herald, and also a shorter synopsis that you are
welcome to duplicate for your clients.
Please mark your calenders to join us at an informational
meeting at [time] at [location]. In the meantime, if you have
any advice please feel free to contact me at [e-mail address
or postal address].
With thanks for your support of the hard of hearing,
______________
P.S. There is something you can do now to support this initiative.
If you plan to start encouraging your patients to get T-coils,
let me know so that we can include this as part of our loop
system promotion (“Several local audiologists have begun
selling loop-compatible hearing aids, so a growing number
of your parishoners will have use for a loop system”).
Also I’d appreciate your confirming that you can join
us on [date].
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