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10 Steps to “Auracasting” Your Community
Learn how hearing providers can use Auracast, hearing loops, and patient advocacy to improve community hearing access and prepare for the future.
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Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD
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Dutch-born audiologist and TEDx speaker Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD, has over four decades of experience in audiology, hearing rehabilitation, and assistive listening. She was previously a co-owner of a multi-clinic audiology practice in Wisconsin. Thanks to grant funding from the David and Carol Myers Foundation, Dr. Sterkens has been on her encore career since 2012 as an advocate for hearing loops and other assistive technology with the Hearing Loss Association of America. She has fostered some thousand hearing loop installations in, and many more outside, Wisconsin. She has received several awards for her work, including the American Academy of Audiology Presidential and Wisconsin Audiologist of the Year awards. She serves on the board of HEAR-in-the-Fox Cities, a non-profit that helps pay for hearing aids for children in North-East Wisconsin.
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“Auracast is Here!” Now What?
Audiologist and hearing advocate Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD, says that although Auracast holds great promise for the future, it will take some time and several provisions before hearing aid users and others benefit from it. Until then, telecoils and loop systems represent an exceptional and practical solution.
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Consumers Still Need Telecoils and Hearing Loops–Even If They Have Bluetooth Hearing Aids
While the industry develops, tests, and ultimately deploys exciting new broadcast audio technologies like Auracast, it is critical that hearing aid consumers continue to reap the benefits of hearing aids with proven telecoil technology to connect to telephones and existing assistive listening systems–today.