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From: Ryan Pollard
Date: 13 Oct 2008
Time: 13:40:31 -0500
Remote Name: 128.138.64.103
Those are good points, Tom. I’m not as familiar with the field of audiology but I can easily see the parallels you mention. Certainly shelling out thousands of dollars ups the motivation factor and rose-colored outlook for any type of treatment, and the SpeechEasy is no exception. The exceptional aspects of the SpeechEasy are its inconspicuousness (as you mentioned) and advanced technological features. Most previous electronic fluency aids had wires, headphones, large components to be worn on the body, etc. A person might worry that they’d draw undesired attention to themselves by using such devices. As for the SpeechEasy’s technology, it can be programmed easily through a computer’s serial port connection, has two distinct settings that wearers can toggle between, and combines two forms of AAF simultaneously (DAF and FAF). Past devices lacked some or all of these features.