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Home Security For The Hearing Impaired
Home security is important for everyone in your household, especially family members with any sort of disability. Often times special accommodations need to be made to ensure that a disability, such as hearing impairment, does not prevent a family member from staying safe in their own home.
When you have a family member who is hearing impaired, there are several changes you must make around the house to maintain their level of home security. Anything that normally alerts you with a noise must be altered to also alert you with a visual alert or a sensation of some sort.
- Doorbell: A regular doorbell is impossible for a deaf person to hear, and very difficult for someone with a hearing impairment to hear. In addition to the chime that most doorbells make you can add a visual light signal. These can easily be installed even if you already have a doorbell. When the bell rings, a signal is sent to remote receivers to flash the lights that you have programmed to the doorbell. You should choose lamps or light fixtures in each room so that no matter where you are, you can see that the doorbell is ringing.
- Home alarm systems: Any alarm in the house that makes a noise needs to be altered to alert someone with a hearing impairment in a different way.
- Alarm clock: There are other options to wake up without the buzzing noise that we are used to. Some alarm clocks are made to wake the user up with a vibration. The best place to put this alarm is under your pillow or under your mattress. Other alarm clocks use flashing lights. Others, which are for users with a hearing loss but who are not completely deaf, emit an extremely loud noise.
- Security alarms: Modifying fire and other home alarm systems for security are extremely important when someone with a hearing impairment is living in the house. An alarm strobe is the best way to visually be notified that an alarm is going off in the house. A strobe light that flashes throughout the house, in addition to the noise, will clearly notify everyone that the alarm has been set off and something is wrong.
- Video surveillance: Video surveillance can be a crucial addition to your home for any hearing impaired family members. A camera set up at the front door and other places outside allow you to see what is going on outdoors. For example, if someone rings the doorbell and you see the flashing lights, rather than asking who it is through the door, you can simply look on the television that is hooked up to the video camera.
Home security for any family member with a hearing impairment is extremely important. Their safety and security should not be sacrificed because of their impairment. There are plenty of products available today to make life easier and safer for the hearing impaired. Most of the options can be installed in your home in addition to the product you already have installed, satisfying every family member's needs.
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Amplified Telephones for the Hard of Hearing and the Deaf from Health and Care
An amplified telephone for a hard of hearing friend or relative can provide a much needed lifeline, particularly during the cold and dark winter months. An amplified telephone amplifies the volume in the handset of the telephone up to 8 times louder than a standard phone making it much easier for the listener to hear the conversation. The Hard of Hearing range from Health and Care includes corded amplified telephones, cordless amplified telephones and hard of hearing telephone with answering machine.
The Hard of Hearing telephone range contains 15 phones ranging in amplificationwith a price to suit any budget. The loudest hard of hearing telephone in the range is the Geemarc Amplipower 50 Amplified Telephone which amplifies the conversation in the headset up to 8 times louder than a normal phone. The Geemarc Amplipower 50 Telephone is the loudest phone in the world and is an ideal amplified telephone for the deaf and extremely hard of hearing. The Geemarc Amplipower 50 hard of hearing phone is also ideal for the elderly and visually impaired as it comes with large, clear buttons and has an easily adjustable receiver volume.
If you are looking for a good value amplified phone with great features then the Amplicom PowerTel 49 Plus Amplified Telephone is for you. The Amplicom PowerTel 49 Plus hard of hearing telephone has a loud receiver volume of 40dB which is 4 to 5 times louder than a normal phone. This hard of hearing telephone also has large clear buttons and a digital display with Caller ID. The Amplicom PowerTel 49 Plus Amplified Telephone is also now a special offer hard of hearing phone and is available to purchase at the discount price of £44.99.
For a sleek, portable cordless telephone look no further than the Amplicom PowerTel 500 hard of hearing telephone. The Amplicom PowerTel 500 Amplified Phone not only looks good, it has a receiving volume 4 times louder than a normal phone and is hearing aid compatible. The Amplicom PowerTel 500 Amplified Telephone is a hearing aid compatible telephone and has a large button keypad making it ideal for people who are deaf and for people who may be visually impaired. This phone for the hard of hearing can also be linked with up to 4 additional handsets so a phone could be positioned in a variety of positions in the house.
Health and Care stock a range of products for the hard of hearing and the deaf including tv listening aids, amplified mobile telephones, extra loud alarm clocks and telephone ring indicators. All of these aids for the hard of hearing and the deaf can be purchased online at Health and Care.co.uk.
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