AT&T

AT&T Inc. was the proud sponsor the HLAA 30th Birthday Party at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center. The food was wonderful, the people were fantastic, the music was marvelous.

They are a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world’s most advanced IPbased business communications services and the nation’s leading wireless, high speed Internet access and voice services.

AT&T Relay has more ways to get you connected and keep you connected with friends, family, co-workers, and everyone else you want to communicate with.

• TTY Relay Service
• IP Relay Service
  
• Video Relay Service (VRS)
  
• IM Relay Service

In addition to AT&T Relay, they offer Text Accessibility Plan’s (TAP) for the most popular phone - iPhone and iPhone 3G. These Text Accessibility Plans were developed for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, have a speech disability and/or hearing loss, and was designed with input from the community.

The TAP plan for original iPhone is $40.00 per month* and includes:

• Unlimited SMS messages
• Unlimited data usage (email and web)
• $.40 per minute pay-per-use voice
• Visual Voicemail

The TAP plan for iPhone 3G $50.00 per month* and includes:

• Unlimited SMS messages
• Unlimited data usage (email and web)
• $.40 per minute pay-per-use voice

To qualify you have to complete the "disability certification forms". New users activate their iPhones in the normal way through iTunes and then have to contact AT&T's National Center for Customers with Disabilities to change over the Text Accessibility Plan.

Oticon

Oticon joined us at the 2009 Hearing Loss Association of America Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center and was the proud sponsor of the fancy schmacy red and black registration bags.

Oticon is the worlds second largest hearing aid manufacturer. They have just released a solution called Oticon ConnectLineTM. With ConnectLine solutions Epoq users can finally talk on the phone, watch TV and listen to music with just as much ease as everyone else. ConnectLine delivers improved performance in terms of speech intelligibility and sound quality since sounds are streamed directly to the Epoq instruments via the user friendly Oticon Streamer.

Wireless Hearing Solutions

Wireless Hearing Solutions was at the 2009 Hearing Loss Association of America Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.

This company provides products, training and support for induction loops of all sizes and configurations from homes and autos to churches, teller windows, theaters and auditoriums. They provide cushion loops for chairs as well!