It has become the standard worldwide to don a protective face mask in almost all group situations to prevent the spread of COVID 19 pathogens. While this is key to our physical health, it also poses new challenges for individuals that are deaf or hard of hearing both...
Live captioning is often the first and best choice for many students that are hard of hearing. Captioning provides all of the below benefits: *Reduce professor vocal fatigue *Facilitate more effective attention and learning *Creates...
Can you get Phonak Roger free?? The answer is found in The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). If you’re employed, the answer is very likely YES. The ADA requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees with disabilities...
While I am certainly biased towards the power of Phonak Roger, there are other accommodations for hard of hearing students as well. Today I’d like to examine note takers and peer tutoring. While these accommodations will be a solution for some – do we do...
The Roger Pen is an incredible piece of technology. If you’ve kept up with any of my previous entries you already know it is the unquestioned leader in providing speech understanding over distance and noise, 54% better than any competitor. In addition, larger...
The Roger Pen is best known for its incredible ability to improve sound clarity over distance and background noise amongst other game changing features… Yet time and time again I am asked, “Can I record with the Roger Pen?” The answer is: YES ...
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