[tri-med] Simulating Hearing Loss

Thankyou to everyone who responded to my question about something that would 
simulate a hearing loss. believe it or not there is a machine out there that 
will simulate a hearing loss. Its called a Helos machine. Its not quite as 
portable as I would like, and it does require some training to use it, but it 
does exist.
I have spoken with the guy who invented it, and he is currently working with a 
guy in The Netherlands to produce a version that will go into your home 
computer, they will then put it on a chip which can be put into a CD player. In 
the meantime he has put me in touch with a lady here in Sydney who works at 
Renwick College. She has three of these machines!!! If I get a group of folk 
together they will put together a presentation weekend for us or even an 
evening workshop with the machine :-)) Once we do that we can "actively 
encourage" teachers and others to also attend and find out what life is like 
for our kids. (Because if they don't its discrimination).

There are a few of these Helos machines in the US as well - the downfall that 
they have discovered however is that when non hearing impaired people use the 
machine they find hearing (as our kids hear) too hard and tend to think that 
they should give up and not speak to our kids at all - hence why they do it as 
a workshop.

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