Several years ago I was diagnosed with Meniers disease. The symptoms of Meniers include hearing loss, dizziness, high pitched buzzing in ears and nausea. I’ve lost a lot of my hearing in both ears. The other symptoms I’ve noticed are worse if I’m stressed so I work at not getting too stressed.
For a while now it’s been getting harder for me to hear on the phone. So recently I googled phone for hearing impaired. I found out because hearing loss is a disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the federal government provides a home phone or a app to your cell phone or both free of cost to anyone who has trouble hearing on the phone. The way the home phone and app works is like closed caption TV. You see the words on your phone the caller is saying so if you can’t hear what they said you can read the words! There’s no income requirement. It took about a hour for the paperwork through email and to put the app in place on my cellphone. The only requirement is my ENT doctor has to certify my hearing loss to them which they take care of getting that certification. That’s it!
Now I’m communicating so much better on the phone! I do put it on speaker phone for each call so I can hear better and read the words! Life changing!
If you are interested in this or know someone who could benefit from this just Google phone for hearing impaired to find a company in your area. Hope this helps others as much as it has me!
