Assistive Technology for the Deaf

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This paper emphasizes that developments in assistive technology are expanding the communication options for the hearing disabled thus enabling them to work more independently and to increase their growth potential. The author presents fully various Assistive Listening Devices (ALD's), any type of device that helps the user function more efficiently and effectively in daily communication.

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"The Assistive Listening Devices or ALDs are referred to any type of device that helps the user in functioning efficiently and effectively in daily communication circumstances. The people with hearing disabilities can use ALDs to overcome their inability to hear clearly. Thus assistive listening devices offer greater ease in hearing, to the person using, it and hence reduces stress and exhaustion. The use of these devices increases the hearing ability of the user as they increase intensity of sound by bringing sound directly into the ear. One of the major functions of ALDs is that it reduces the background noise, which causes difficulty in hearing; it reduces the negative effects of distance between the source of sound and the hard of hearing people using the device and finally it revokes poor acoustics."

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