types of hearing aids

Hearing aids

Some Hearing aids wearers prefer more recent styles that are less visible. These include in-the-canal (ITC), completely-in-the-canal (CIC) and in-the-ear models. Instead of resting behind the ear, all these devices are internally placed in the ear and are nearly invisible.

types of hearing aids

Types of hearing aids

• 1.1 Body worn aids
• 1.2 BTE Hearing aids
• 1.3 In the ear aids (ITE)
• 1.4 Receiver In the Canal/Ear (RIC/RITE)
• 1.5 In the canal (ITC), mini canal (MIC) and completely in the canal ai(CIC)
• 1.6 Invisible In canal hearing aids (IIC)
• 1.7 Extended wear hearing aids
• 1.8 Open-fit devices
• 1.9 Personal, User, Self, or Consumer Programmable
• 1.10 Disposable hearing aids
• 1.11 Bone Anchored Hearing Aids (BAHA)
• 1.12 Eyeglass aids

types of hearing aids

Limitations with wheelchairs

Problems with wheelchairs

wheelchair at Manish steel works

One problem with wheelchairs was: Wheelchairs can't go up stairs, over curbs, etc. Beginning in the 1960s, people began to see this not as a problem with wheelchairs, but as a problem with the way buildings are designed. In the US, grassroots pressure mounted on the federal government to enact standards for architectural accessibility -- wheelchair ramps, curb cuts, etc. The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 was the first major success of this movement. The passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was a second huge victory. These early breakthroughs were followed over the next 20 years by piecemeal legislation, culminating in the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which guaranteed that people with disabilities could not be excluded from public schools, public transportation, polling places, air travel, employment and finally any place of public accommodation.

Limitations with wheelchairs

Wheelchairs in Sports

After World War II, wheelchair sports began to gain in popularity. Since the 1940s, there have been high-level wheelchair athletics programs; basketball and racing are probably the best-established but today there are also hockey, rugby, fencing, billiards, football, bowling, tennis, curling, sailing, skiing, volleyball and more.

The need of athletes for high-performance Wheelchairs drove innovation; the big old clunky hospital-style chairs would not remain the only option for long. In 1979 Marilyn Hamilton, Jim Okamoto, and Don Helmanproduced a mass-market lightweight folding wheelchair called the "Quickie"; its design and its sexier name revolutionized manual wheelchair manufacturing and marketing. In 1984, George Murray became the first wheelchair athlete to be featured on the Wheaties cereal box.

Wheelchairs in Sports

History of wheelchair

different types of wheelchairs

wheelchair History

The first wheelchair was made for Phillip II of Spain in the 1600s. The first wheelchair patent was registered with the U.S. Patent Office in 1869. Folding wheelchairs were introduced in 1909, but not in any great numbers they manufactured. In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt had his wheelchairs jury-rigged from actual chairs.

The advent of the familiar modern wheelchair occurred in 1932 when engineer Harry Jennings built the first folding tubular steel wheelchair for his friend Herbert Everest. Everest & Jennings went into business together, and their company so dominated the U.S. market that in 1976 the Justice Department brought an anti-trust suit against them. They settled out of court.

History of wheelchair

Types of Wheelchairs

A Manual Wheelchair

Different types Wheelchairs

There are also electric or automatic Wheelchairs, which is operated with battery power, for people who can't (or choose not to) power themselves in a manual chair. Dean Kamen's celebrated I-BOT promises to be the first wheelchair that can climb stairs and perform other feats of agility out of the reach of traditional wheelchairs.

Types:

• Manual Wheelchair
• Fix Wheelchair
• Folding Wheelchair
• Deluxe Wheelchair
• Special Wheelchair
• CP Child Wheelchair

Types of Wheelchairs