For your home you can get alarm clocks, baby monitors, doorbells and smoke alarms that are specially designed for deaf and hard of hearing people. They use flashing lights or vibrating pagers or pads to get your attention.

Equipment to help communication

There is a wide variety of equipment available for deaf and hard of hearing people and different types of equipment to suit your level of deafness or hearing loss.

Sensory alerts for the home

Sensory alerts (opens new browser window) send you signals about sounds around the home such as:

They are designed for deaf and hard of hearing people to use at home. They use flashing lights or vibrating pagers or pads to get your attention.

You can buy each product with a separate alerting system or just use one multi-alerting system to draw your attention to different sounds or events in your home.

Telephones

Do you find it hard to hear conversations on the telephone (opens new browser window)? Stay in touch with friends and family with a telephone that is adapted for people who are hard of hearing. If you are deaf you can buy a textphone and even a mobile textphone (opens new browser window).

Listening equipment

You can also get a range of equipment to help you hear face-to-face conversations better, for example at home, in a pub or during meetings. These kinds of products are called conversation aids or listening equipment (opens new browser window).

Loop and infrared systems

Loops and infrared systems help you to hear your television, stereo or radio at home or in the car. You can also find these systems in public places such as theatres, cinemas, banks, shopping centres and train stations. If you wear a hearing aid, find out how loops can help you (opens new browser window).

If you manage a public place where a loop system is installed, find out more about loops and how to check that your system is working properly.

To see a wide range of equipment that can help you in everyday life, please visit our shop.