title: Programmable Telecoil Responses: Potential Advantages for Assistive Listening Device Fittings.
abstract: Ten experienced hearing aid users were tested to evaluate an assistive listening device inductively coupled to three different hearing aids-their own BTE hearing aid and associated telecoil, a programmable hearing aid with the telecoil programmed using the manufacturer's algorithm, and the same programmable hearing aid with the telecoil programmed so that the real-ear gain obtained with the hearing aid-assistive listening device combination matched a prescriptive target. Results indicated that modifying the telecoil response to match a prescriptive target can result in enhanced speech understanding and higher preference rankings.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Noe