FM - because learning is a question of being on the right wavelength

The path to better hearing begins with the choice of the right hearing instrument. However, even hearing instruments properly adjusted to the child's personal needs cannot guarantee an adequate signal-to-noise ratio in all situations. Reception of speech signals can be severely impeded by ambient noise. In classrooms, where many children are often speaking at the same time, it can be virtually impossible for the hearing impaired listener to filter out the background noise. Likewise, distance and reverberation dramatically reduce intelligibility.

The best way of overcoming problems created by noise, distance or reverberation is to use a wireless communication system. FM systems were designed specifically to pick up speech signals directly at source and transmit them, clearly and without distortion, to the user's ear.
For many years now, teachers, audiologists, parents and speech therapists have been successfully using FM systems to help the hard of hearing in all kinds of learning situations as well as out of school. The advantages of FM technology for hearing impaired people, from very small children to adults, are obvious: FM systems create a basis for optimum speech intelligibility, independent of the acoustic surroundings.

As the world's leading supplier of high-gain hearing instruments, Phonak was the first company to offer audio input contacts – for the connection of various assistive listening devices –as a standard feature on all its BTE instruments.

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