City considers installing hearing loops to help hearing-impaired
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Several City of Winnipeg facilities could be updated with new technology to help people with hearing challenges.
New hearing loops, which amplify voices for people with hearing aids, will be installed at five new locations, if council approves.
“We’re working very hard to make our city facilities accessible for more people,” said Mayor Scott Gillingham, after executive policy committee voted in favour of the idea on Tuesday.
“It’s very important for accessibility for those who have hearing impairment to be able to… enjoy and participate in (an) event.”
A hearing loop is a special sound system that provides a magnetic, wireless signal that’s picked up by hearing aids.
“It would regulate the sound… so everyone utilizing a hearing aid could hear clearly,” said Gillingham.
The city had secured funding to install hearing loops at five other locations. A report does not state the exact facilities where the new technology will be used.
— Free Press staff