The 3rd International Hearing Loop Conference will be held in Eastbourne / England from October 5 - 7, 2013.

It will be organized by UK hearing loss organisation, Hearing Link, and the European Federation of Hard of Hearing People (EFHOH).

More information can be found at www.hearinglink.org/loopconference or write to Julie Leggett, Conference Manager loopconference(at)hearinglink.org

The 2nd International Hearing Loop Conference was held at Hyatt Regency Crystal City in the Washington D.C. area, USA, from June 18-20, 2011, in conjunction with the Annual Convention of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA).

The conference was organized by HLAA together with the American Academy of Audiology (AAA).

250 attendees from around the world were here to learn about the benefits of telecoils and hearing loop technology. Among them were a lot of audiologists from different parts of the United States.

Dr. Ruth Warick, Vancouver, Canada, President of the International Federation of Hard of Hearing People (IFHOH) www.ifhoh.org  stated in her closing remarks at the 2nd International Hearing Loop Conference in Washington D.C.: "I think the future is bright. Telecoils and hearing loops used to be the past, and now it's the future."

The first conference was held in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 2009. The videos from the first conference can still be downloaded from the conference website www.hearingloops.org

The presentations from the 2nd International Hearing Loop Conference are posted on the website of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) www.hearingloss.org/content/2011loop-presentations

All presentations and panel discussions have been recorded and can be downloaded as video streams.

Click on Speakers, Panel Discussion or Schedule and start video.

The conference dealt with the latest technology of audio frequency induction loop systems (AFILS), including future developments. It was aimed at technical / accessibility committees of hard of hearing and CI organizations, disability organizations, installers of loops, hearing aid providers, the hearing aid and cochlear implant industry, manufacturers of assistive listening devices, as well as interested hard of hearing people or people with cochlear implants.