Products intended to support, train or replace a person's capacity to receive, send, produce and process information in different forms, including communicating by language, signs and symbols, receiving and producing messages, carrying on conversations and using communication devices and techniques. Included are, e.g. devices for seeing, hearing, reading, writing, telephoning, signalling and alarming, information technology. Assistive products for office administration, information storage and management at work, see 28 21.

Devices for concentrating and channelling sounds into the ear

Devices placed on or nearby the person’s body for amplifying surrounding sound or for increasing the volume of one or more persons’ voices. Included are, e.g. communication amplifiers.

Software, to be installed on a mobile device such as a smartphone, that amplifie the sounds or voices around the user.

Frames of eyeglasses with built-in electronic devices to amplify sound

Devices worn within the ear to amplify sound. Included are, e.g. in-the-canal hearing aids..

Hearing aids placed in the outer part of the ear canal (concha). Allows room for controls in the hearing aid.

Hearing aids placed in the ear canal. No controls on the apparatus.

Devices worn behind the ear to amplify sound. Included are, e.g. headband hearing aids..

Behind-the-ear hearing-aids with an output <= 132 dB SPL

Behind-the-ear hearing-aids with an output > 132 dB SPL

Devices for receiving, amplifying and transforming sounds into tactile signals

Devices for assisting hearing by stimulating the receivers implanted, e.g. in the inner ear

Devices for transmitting sound between source and hearing aid. Included are induction loop systems, induction loop amplifiers, radio frequency (FM) transmission systems, infrared (IR) systems and streaming systems.

Amplifiers for small loops, designed for one person. Included are, e.g., pillow loops, neck loops and clip-on equipment transmitting audio magnetically by using the pick-up loop inside the users hearing aids.

Loop amplifiers using electromagnetic waves to transmit audio information to hearing aids. Designed for use in one or more rooms.

Passive induction-loops without built-in amplifiers.

Included are, e.g. audio connections, spectacle adaptations, remote controls for hearing aids, software, special purpose batteries, rechargeable batteries, battery chargers.