Send your submissions to Vickie Shillington . In general terms, audiologists diagnose, evaluate and treat hearing disorders. They can work in hospitals, educational settings, in rehabilitation, or they can work in private practice. Some work exclusively with children or newborns, but the vast majority of audiologists work with senior citizens whose hearing becomes impaired with age. So they have a special machine set up, similar to what the patients have at home.
Patients can type and transmit directly to the hospital, and someone at the hospital can respond.
Everything shows up as typing. It's totally happening visually, instead of by hearing. The TDD allows messages to be typed, rather than spoken. The device allows a person to make a telephone call directly to another person with similar equipment. The conversation is typed and the message is transmitted from one machine to the other.