List complied by: D. R. Abell 5/30/2017
| Facility Name | Rooms HAT Available | # of Loops | Address |
| St. John the Evangelist Church | Sanctuary | 1 | 61 Poplar Street Newport, RI 02840 |
| St. Paul's Church | Sanctuary | 1 | 55 Main Street Wickford, RI 02852 |
| Saint Mary's Episcopal Church | Parish Hall Chapel/multipurpose room Historic church | 2 | 324 East Main Road Portsmouth, RI 02871 |
| Peace Dale Congregational Church | Main sanctuary | 1 | 261 Columbia Street Peace Dale, RI 02869 |
Sanctuary Choir area | 2 | 27 North Road Peace Dale, RI 02879 | |
| Rhode Island State House | Room 35 (House Finance Committee) State Governor’s Reception Room (Room 222) Largest Senate hearing room (Room 313) Senate gallery and both House galleries. | 5 | 90 Smith Street Providence, RI 02903 |
| Roger Williams National Memorial | Visitors Center | 1 | 282 North Main Street Providence, RI 02903 |
| Providence Athenaeum | 1 | 251 Benefit Street Providence, RI 02903 | |
| Brown University (BERT) | Room 130 | 1 | 85 Waterman Street Providence, RI 02912 |
| North Kingstown Free Library | Meeting Room | 1 | 100 Boone Street North Kingstown, RI 02852 |
Get in the Loop:
When a hearing aid isn't enough...
Hearing aids are wonderful technology for enhancing your ability to communicate. However, hearing aids are intended for personal communication (within 6ft or so). This is problematic for situations like the theater, worship services, and lectures.
What is a Telecoil?
A telecoil is a small copper coil inside your hearing aid. Hearing aids with an activated telecoil convert an electromagnetic field (created by a loop system) into a sound signal. Telecoils are built into many hearing aids. Telecoils are not automatically on - you will need a separate t-coil program to access a hearing loop system. Please make sure to let us know if you would like us to activate the t-coil in your hearing aid. If you don't have a t-coil in your hearing aid, there are some other options that will allow you to access a loop system, please ask us for more information.
What is a Hearing Loop System?
Simply put, looping takes a signal from a sound source (i.e. a public-address system) and transmits it through an amplifier to a wire that surrounds (or loops) the audience. That wire sends an electromagnetic signal, wirelessly, directly to your hearing aid, which has a telecoil that receives it. You get a direct, clear signal; one without crowd noise, echoes, or any other inference. You will find loop systems at theaters, places of worship, airports, and even in taxis! Slowly but steadily, hearing loop systems are becoming available here in Rhode Island.
Below you will find a list of currently available loop systems in RI. You can check here to see a map of all current Hearing Loop systems in RI! There are more systems being installed all the time. We will do our best to keep this list as up to date as possible!
Hearing Loop Systems in Rhode Island:
Call Us: (401) 585-5439
By: Sara Carnevale Fearon, AuD
Posted July 18, 2017
All About T-coils and Hearing Loops Systems
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