CAHAT Community Access Hearing Assistive Technology
Assistive Listening Systems pick up desired sounds (such as a speaker’s voice), amplify them and transmit them to listeners’ ears, reducing other sounds and avoiding distortion and reverberation. These systems also allow the user to control the volume of the transmitted signal.These systems are owned and managed by the Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation (OLSHF). They were purchased through a generous grant from the Meyer Memorial Trust Fund. OLSHF is excited to provide access to Assistive Listening Systems, for the improvement of communication of deaf and hard of hearing people within their local communities.
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The assistive Listening Systems will be housed at locations around the State.
- These systems can be picked up at local sites or shipped to more distant locations as needed.
- To determine the nearest location to you or to get more information about availability, call the Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation at 1-800-635-4667
or Access Technologies, Inc.
at 1-800-677-7512.
ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEMS:
FM SYSTEMS – pick up desired sounds via microphones and transmit them to individual FM receivers. A FM system is ideal for large and small meetings. It has the longest range of all our systems. Our program owns:
·One base transmitter and six portable transmitters.
·We have 90 FM receivers, 70 neckloops, and over 50 headsets & earbuds, to be distributed.
INDUCTIVE LOOP SYSTEMS – transmit sounds by creating a magnetic field inside a wire loop circling all or part of a room; people inside the loop receive the sounds through their telecoil-equipped hearing aids or by using a loop receiver. Our program owns:
·Two Inductive-Loop systems
·Twelve Loop receivers.
INFRARED SYSTEM – transmits sound through infrared light wave technology to infrared receivers. The Infrared system is ideal for indoor use. It is containable within an enclosed space; allowing for confidential settings. Our program owns:
·One Infrared emitter
·25 Infrared receivers
REAL-TIME CAPTIONING – provides access for both deaf and hard of hearing people. Captions are produced by stenocaptioners, using captioning software and a display device. Our program owns
·One InFocus projector, for large meetings.
·Two computer-to-TV adapters to display captions on TV monitors
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Information Assumed Accurate On: Jan 8, 2007
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