The Disability Discrimination Act was introduced to help disabled people when dealing with service providers, companies or organisations. Businesses must take measures to ensure that hard of hearing customers are able to communicate on their premises with no more difficulty than people without hearing difficulties. Hard of hearing employees and customers must be adequately provided for by the installation & availability of assistive hearing systems, such as Induction Loop or Infra Red systems, which will allow them to use facilities or services which are available to the general public. The DDA also states that as well as the equipment being available to the hard of hearing when they need it, the equipment must be properly maintained and staff must know how to operate it.

Assistive Hearing Systems

Newtech provides a variety of Assistive Hearing Systems to aid the hard of hearing. From Infra Red systems to Speech Transfer and Loop Induction systems. In most cases equipment can be installed discretely, leaving a fully functioning system, which does not require any regular checks or adjustments to be made. Installation can usually be completed within a matter of hours with minimal disruption to the work area and staff can be fully trained in how to use the system by a member of out installation team.

Newtech provides and installs the following equipment for each location. Please click on the link for more information about each product.

Reception Counters

Counter Top Loop System
Speech Transfer systems
PILS - Portable Loop System

Small Classrooms / Training Rooms

Home Loop System
Soundfield Systems

Larger Rooms

VAT EXEMPTION

Registered charities, churches and any person who is registered disabled will not be charged VAT on the following equipment:

Hearing loop systems
Infra red hearing systems
Personal amplifiers
Deaf alarm systems

Compact B Loop System
Infra Red System
Series 200 Combined Sound and Loop System

If you require any further advice on how the Disability Discrimination Act affects you, please give our sales team a call and we will be happy to answer any questions.

VAT EXEMPTION

Register charities, churches and any person who is registered disabled will not be charge vat on the following equipment:
Hearing loop systems
Infra red hearing systems
Personal amplifiers
Deaf alarm systems

For more information please download this leaflet from HMRC

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