Products intended to support 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 worn attached to the person's clothes or hanging around her/his neck for amplifying sound

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

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