Glossary
This glossary webpage can be used in two ways:
- Hover your cursor over a term or click on the term.
- These terms also appear as tooltips throughout this website. A tooltip is hidden by default and appears when you hover your cursor over a glossary term.
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- ADA
- Assistive Listening Devices
- Assistive Listening System
- Audiologist
- Audio Over Wi-Fi
- Auracast as an Assistive Listening System
- Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
- Auxiliary Aids
- Bluetooth
- Complaint
- Decibel
- Direct Hearing Instrument Connection
- Ear Loop
- Effective Communication
- Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
- FM System
- Headphones
- Hearing-Aid Compatibility
- Hearing Instruments
- Hearing Instrument Specialist
- Hearing Loop
- Hearing Loss
- Infrared System
- International Symbol of Access for Hearing Loss
- Latency
- Neckloop
- Person-First Language
- Proprietary
- Receiver
- Remote Microphone
- Signal-To-Noise Ratio (SNR)
- Telecoil
Resources
- Glossary of Audiology Terms, Academy of Doctors of Audiology
- Glossary, Ask an Audiologist