Our aim is to explore deaf children’s use of assistive listening devices (commonly referred to as FM systems) at home and in the wider community, and also to find out from relevant professionals how effective the home use of assistive listening devices is.
We hope to explore the benefits and challenges of using assistive listening devices in the home. This study is funded by the NDCS.
This study is a small piece of research to establish how assistive listening device use is working at home, especially in relation to home learning during Covid-19.
We recruited families from Scotland and approached any professionals (teachers of the deaf, support staff, audiologists, educational audiologists, speech and language therapists) that were able to offer feedback.
The method used to collect the data is by interview of around 30 minutes.
For more information about this project, please contact
The project was within the Scottish Sensory Centre, part of the School of Education at the University of Edinburgh. Professor John Ravenscroft is the director of the SSC: john.ravenscroft@ed.ac.uk
The research has been approved by the University of Edinburgh’s Ethics Committee and any participant can withdraw at any time.
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