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Show and easily replaceable. Anyone wishing more information in-formation or desiring- to place an order for the adapter adap-ter should write to: Marketing Mar-keting Coordinator Hearing Aid Adapter; Mountain Bell P. O. Box 959; Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. As a further step to assist as-sist the hard-of-hearing, A. T. & T. is making mod-ificiations mod-ificiations in some of its newer coin telephones so that all hearing aid users will be able to use them. The new coin phones will be installed in Maryland this spring, and if they function func-tion as expected, all coir phones installed starting next fall will carry the modification. Virginia Knauer, special assistant to President Nixon Nix-on for consumer affairs, complimented A. T. & T. Mountain Bell Develops Adapter For Hearing Aid What good is a hearing aid that won't work on the telephone? It's about as useful as a sundial that only tells time on sunny days. Tiie fact is, some hearing hear-ing aids will not function with the new, more efficient effi-cient receivers used in Trimline telephones and some coin phones. Hearing aids with a telephone tele-phone pickup feature depend on the harmless electromagnetic electro-magnetic waves generated by the telephone receiver. The newer receivers do not generate enough waves for these hearing aids to operate op-erate properly. To assist persons who use this type of hearing aid, the Bell System had developed develop-ed an adapter to make the telephone compatible for all hearing aids. The adapter is the size of a large wristwatch, and can be used on any telephone. 1 Mountain Bell is offering the adapter to the public on a non-profit basis. The cost is $7.50, which includes the first battery and all shipping and handling costs. The battery is long-lasting for working toward solutions to overcome the incompatibility incompati-bility of hearing aids with new phones. "A. T. & T. has shown that it is possible to harmonize har-monize new technology with the existing needs of the handicapped," she said. |