Hi! My name is sherry and I am hard of hearing with a profound hearing loss. It is a nerve deafness and I was born with it. I also have two sons that are hard of hearing. I live in Tennessee with my husband and my beautiful toy white poodle. I have 3 grown married children and 5 grandchildren. Right now I am searching for an amplified telephone, cordless, with answering machine. I have found one I like and it says hearing aid compatible but none of them say T-coil compatible. We purchased one and it was not t-coil compatible and it cost us to ship it back plus a restocking fee. How do we know by shopping on the internet if it is t-coil compatible? Please anyone out there, any answers? We are needing an answering machine right away.
telephones and t-coil
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Many companies fail now to recognize hearing aid compatible MEANS t coil. Its very sticky issue now, as less and less HA users forgo the normal landline phone for cells for texting and such. I should know... I was in market for a replacement landline phone, I wouldnt care more or less if it has answering machine, but its harder to find a cheap handset with tcoil compatibility. I find the portable handset gives buzzing noise when in use. Its not the same buzzing level between brands. panasonic appears to be less of buzzing, but I must not be near my kitchen where there is fluorescent bulbs are.
My suggestions at this point is make try harriscommunications catalog/website as they are geared more towards deaf/HoH.
If you don't want to wait, just do what I did. I made a point of going to various stores everyweek and buy one brand I think I like and try it out for a week. if it sucks, I took it back and got money back within 5-7 days and got my cash back and tried another till I found one I like. Took me nearly a month.
. Now I may need to go shopping again as the batteries gave out on it and tried a replacement batteries and its acting funny. time for another. :roll:
My suggestions at this point is make try harriscommunications catalog/website as they are geared more towards deaf/HoH.
If you don't want to wait, just do what I did. I made a point of going to various stores everyweek and buy one brand I think I like and try it out for a week. if it sucks, I took it back and got money back within 5-7 days and got my cash back and tried another till I found one I like. Took me nearly a month.
. Now I may need to go shopping again as the batteries gave out on it and tried a replacement batteries and its acting funny. time for another. :roll:I too would suggest looking local. At one time I thought I was going to add one — discovered that the answering machine part would NOT play back if the phone part was in use. I need them at the same time as I use relay with VCO to get my messages.
There are not many around but I think I have still seen some answering machines that are a separate item. That may make finding the phone easier.
There are not many around but I think I have still seen some answering machines that are a separate item. That may make finding the phone easier.
http://store.hearingplanet.com/shar...t2=986579537&CategoryID=6&Target=products.asp
I bought my hearing aids from this website 6 years ago. Will probably go back to buy the next ones.
The link shows some very good quality and very loud phones for deaf people.
You can buy those brands from other websites too. However, these ones are among the best.
I bought my hearing aids from this website 6 years ago. Will probably go back to buy the next ones.
The link shows some very good quality and very loud phones for deaf people.
You can buy those brands from other websites too. However, these ones are among the best.
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For the best T-coil telephone experience, I have never found any new phone, landline or cellphone, to rival these old AT&T landline phones.
myLot - Old black home landline phone
They had the best sound ever.
You might still be able to find them at thrift shops and rummage sales. I keep two of them in a box in case I ever get a landline again.
myLot - Old black home landline phone
They had the best sound ever.
You might still be able to find them at thrift shops and rummage sales. I keep two of them in a box in case I ever get a landline again.
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Many companies fail now to recognize hearing aid compatible MEANS t coil. Its very sticky issue now, as less and less HA users forgo the normal landline phone for cells for texting and such. I should know... I was in market for a replacement landline phone, I wouldnt care more or less if it has answering machine, but its harder to find a cheap handset with tcoil compatibility. I find the portable handset gives buzzing noise when in use. Its not the same buzzing level between brands. panasonic appears to be less of buzzing, but I must not be near my kitchen where there is fluorescent bulbs are.
My suggestions at this point is make try harriscommunications catalog/website as they are geared more towards deaf/HoH.
If you don't want to wait, just do what I did. I made a point of going to various stores everyweek and buy one brand I think I like and try it out for a week. if it sucks, I took it back and got money back within 5-7 days and got my cash back and tried another till I found one I like. Took me nearly a month.
I got my phone from my phone company for free, it is a Clarity model
# XL45 . it works pretty good with my HA. I had no luck finding a landline phone at any store! I tried Radio Shack in Ma. and NH and they had nothing , the salesman in NH Radio Shack said he had another HOH person looking for
a landline phone . I am finding it harder to find one all the time. I do not want a cell phone, I know I will be misplacing it all the time! I think I will have start using a talky walky phone or two tin cans and a string!