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Many people that have to use hearing aid also want to use a cell phone. Quite often the hearing aid frequencies interfere with the frequency used by cell phones. It is quite common to experience squealing when trying to use a cell phone with your hearing aid.

If your hearing aid is not very severe, then you may be easily able to hear well enough to take your hearing aid out & use the phone without the hearing aid.

Manufacturers of hearing aids are quite innovative, they’re always finding new features to add to the hearing aids.

If you wanted to use Bluetooth headsets with your hearing aid it may have been hard before, however now you can buy a Bluetooth compatible headset, these enable users to talk on the phone like other people can normally.

Bluetooth is the name of a wireless radio system that can be often used as a wireless headset. Bluetooth is a standard protocol which is compatible with Bluetooth enabled phones & PDA’s.

Ear level instrument (ELI) is a Bluetooth headset produced by Starkey, this headset works perfectly with most hearing aids. There is more. The ELI is very small & considerably light, there is a built in battery which you can recharge. It uses a digital system to minimise the interference.

The only problems with the ELI is that they’re relatively new, & so they’re quite hard to come by.

The ELI is positioned behind the ear, it uses the telecoil system to ‘talk’ to a telecoil enabled hearing aid. This works similar to when talking on a conventional phone with telecoils.

The ELI battery doesn’t last very long, however because it is rechargeable you can charge it up instead of having to replace it.

So how do you know whether or not you can use a Bluetooth headset with your phone? Well your cell phone should have a Bluetooth logo somewhere on the case, or box. You can also look in the product specifications.

If your handset is Bluetooth enabled then you should be easily able to use an ELI, however it’s worth checking compatibility before purchasing.

You can also find more information at conduction hearing aids & analog hearing aids. FirstHearingAids.com is a comprehensive resource for people suffering from hearing loss to get information on hearing aid options, prices & maintenance.

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