Programmable Telecoil Responses
Stephanie A. Davidson, Colleen M. Noe · American Journal of Audiology · 1994
Ten experienced hearing aid users were tested to evaluate an assistive listening device inductively coupled to three different hearing aids-their own BTE hearing aid and associated telecoil, a programmable hearing aid with the telecoil programmed using the manufacturer's algorithm, and the same programmable hearing aid with the telecoil programmed so that the real-ear gain obtained with the hearing aid-assistive listening device combination matched a prescriptive target. Results indicated that modifying the telecoil response to match a prescriptive target can result in enhanced speech understanding and higher preference rankings.