Help on FM, Phonak Microlink MLx

September 28, 2001

Hi All,

My 4 year old boy uses Phonak Microlink FM. He has Phonak Novo Forte

programmable hearing aids and he wears only one boot (for his better ear).

He started wearing his FM since almost a month and I have a problem with his

boot that goes to his hearing aid. There is a tiny switch in the boot and

there are three options, the switch always needs to be in the middle which

means the FM is on. But sometimes when my son comes back from school I

observed that the switch is going to off position. I am observing this

problem more often since a week. Eventhough my son is not touching the

switch the boot is going to off position, probably it's interfering with his

color or jacket etc. Is there anyway I can stop the tiny switch moving? I

mean I want to keep the switch always on.

Also I dont use FM at home as I feel I dont need it, as my son is always

close to me. Sometimes I feel that if he get used to FM, it might be harder

for him to follow me without FM? he might be used to always hear something

that goes directly into his ear? is this true. Please help me with my

questions. My son has moderatley severe to severe loss in his better ear.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

Thank You,

Sirisha.

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September 28, 2001

You could ask the audiologist if the ML55 boots are compatible with the Novo

Fortes. My daughter has used the Phonak Pico Fortes and Pico nets with the

ML55 boots. That boot has only 2 switch positions, FM and FM+Mic. So the

boots are receiving the FM input from both positions. The only thing you

need to consider is that when the switch is in the FM position, he will not

receive input from his hearing aid mic- he will only hear what is coming

from the FM and not from anyone talking directly to him. We have not had

problems with the switch easily moving, perhaps your son's boots are

defective.

My daughter was diagnosed at age four with a moderate loss. I didn't use

the FM at home because she did not seem to need it (her expressive and

receptive language skills were fully developed before she had a sudden

hearing loss). However, Carol Flexer has written several articles stressing

the need to use the FM at home. She advocates getting good sound to the

kids in order to help learn language. Hope this helps,

, mom to (9,HAs), (7,no loss), (almost 4,

Clarion CI 7/99)

Help on FM, Phonak Microlink MLx

Hi All,

My 4 year old boy uses Phonak Microlink FM. He has Phonak Novo Forte

programmable hearing aids and he wears only one boot (for his better ear).

He started wearing his FM since almost a month and I have a problem with

his

boot that goes to his hearing aid. There is a tiny switch in the boot and

there are three options, the switch always needs to be in the middle which

means the FM is on. But sometimes when my son comes back from school I

observed that the switch is going to off position. I am observing this

problem more often since a week. Eventhough my son is not touching the

switch the boot is going to off position, probably it's interfering with

his

color or jacket etc. Is there anyway I can stop the tiny switch moving? I

mean I want to keep the switch always on.

Also I dont use FM at home as I feel I dont need it, as my son is always

close to me. Sometimes I feel that if he get used to FM, it might be

harder

for him to follow me without FM? he might be used to always hear something

that goes directly into his ear? is this true. Please help me with my

questions. My son has moderatley severe to severe loss in his better ear.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

Thank You,

Sirisha.

_________________________________________________________________

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October 6, 2001

Hi Shirisha,

We also just started using the microlink, but my daughter leaves everything

at school, so I don't know about the little switch- maybe yours are loose??

I do notice that my daughter seems to be saying " what " more often at home-

maybe because she is used to the fm system at school and we don't use one at

home. I also worry that she won't use her visual cues as much because

she'll have more verbal inputs at school.

Randie Chubin

Margie (7) moderate/moderate to severe, EVAS

Eli (4) and Mollie (1), hearing

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