A severe functional hearing loss will require full-time hearing aid use. Additional receive amplification may be helpful when Telephoning but the major problem is to obtain optimal coupling to a personal hearing aid. Inductive coupling is often the preferred method but some smaller hearing aids are incapable of supporting this connection.
A person with severe hearing impairment may be able to hear over the telephone, but may have severe difficulties in understanding what is being said.
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