Having telephone conversations can be difficult if not impossible for people with hearing deficiencies. Not to mention that many times, they don’t even hear the phone ringing, thus missing important calls. Hearing aid phones can help these people get back into normality, because they come with amplifiers which adjust the ringing and the speaking volume to really high levels. Some of these phones feature flashing lights which get activated by incoming calls or by call waiting. Another useful function is the phone memory, which can hold up to nine direct memories and in some cases three more emergency memories.

If the hearing impaired person lives with other people, they may choose one of those hearing aid phone models which allow deactivating the ringer and using only the flashing lights for signaling the incoming calls. In case your hearing aid is equipped with a function for streamlining sounds from other devices such as TV sets, phones or mp3 players, you need to purchase a hearing aid compatible phone, in order to benefit from that function. Hearing aid compatible phones feature a telecoil, or a t-switch, which can be activated from a switch and which transmits the signal directly to the hearing aid, as radio waves, for an optimal listening experience. In case you don’t have this capability on your hearing aid, you still can reduce whistling and annoying feedback when listening on the phone, by using a hearing aid phone pad, which is a special ring made of foam, that helps keeping a safe distance between the phone and the hearing aid.

If you find difficulties in using your cell phone, you can turn it into a hearing aid phone by connecting it to a special device called HATIS (Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnect System), which will make it possible for you to hear better.