“As social animals—as people who need people—hearing is vital to our emotional and cognitive health. Thankfully, today’s hearing technologies can enable those of us with this great invisible disability to escape the deafness that caused Beethoven to lament living ‘like an exile’ and experiencing social encounters with ‘a hot terror.’”
Dr. David Myers - Internationally known psychologist, educator and author.its.
Howard "Rocky" Stone - Founder of HLA
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IT'S THE LAW
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA requires that any public place of assembly that provides a public address system (PA) must also have an assistive listening system (ALS). That ALS will broadcast a silent signal to receivers in hearing aids or an available device with earphones or a neckloop, to make the activity taking place sufficiently audible for people with hearing loss to participate..
Use the links below to learn more about Assistive Listening Systems
If you could hear better, you would laugh too!
You have the right to hear in theaters and other public gathering places..
