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• Full-size headsets
• Miniature earsets
• Wireless accessories
• Other microphones and earphones
• Carrying cases

Nothing beats a full-size binaural (two ears) headset for maximizing fluency. Use the headset in a speech clinic, for home therapy practice, and for telephone calls. Or use the headset in noisy environments, as the noise-canceling microphone rejects background noise.

The microphone can be cleaned with alcohol wipes between clients. We can also provide washable headphone covers. The weight is 4.3 ounces (122 grams).

A Sennheiser PC131 headset is included with every anti-stuttering device.

Cellphone earsets have become our customers' choice for face-to-face conversations. The Plantronics MX100S is light and comfortable and the sound quality is almost as good as the full-size headset. The MX100S can be used either binaurally (two ears) or monaurally (one ear).

The microphone is built into the cord. The microphone picks up background noise so the MX100S should be used in noisy environments only with the SmallTalk's push-to-talk feature.

A Plantronics MX100S earset is included with the SmallTalk and Pocket Speech Lab. It's an optional accessory for the other devices.

Wireless Cellphone Earsets

Jabra Bluetooth wireless earsets work with our devices with a Jabra A210 Bluetooth transmitter. The sound quality is better than a hearing aid, although not as good as a wired cellphone earset. A Jabra Bluetooth earset is included with the SmallTalk and is optional with the Telephone Fluency System. The School DAF and Pocket Speech Lab can't be used with Bluetooth accessories.

Wireless Hearing Aids

If you wear hearing aids, your stuttering treatment device can transmit wirelessly to your ears. We have a happy customer who'd lost his hearing in one ear. He tried a SpeechEasy hearing aid-style anti-stuttering device but returned it because that device occluded his hearing in his good ear. Then he went to a speech and hearing clinic that we recommended. The dual-degree audiologist/speech-language pathologist looked at his hearing chart and found that his bad ear was aidable. She fitted his bad ear with a hearing aid. She selected a Phonak hearing aid with an FM receiver. She then rubber-banded a credit card Phonak FM transmitter to our stuttering treatment device. He also wore a lapel microphone. She put nothing in his good ear. The result was fluent speech and he could hear with both ears! And all this cost less than the SpeechEasy.

Another customer is a priest with Parkinson's disease. He started using our Pocket Fluency System in 1998. His hearing aids have telecoil receivers so his audiologist plugged an inexpensive ($58) telecoil neckloop transmitter into his Pocket Fluency System. He also wore a lapel microphone. Thus much-loved priest was able to continue doing weddings, funerals, and masses for five years past when he thought he'd have to retire.

Have your audiologist call us. FM wireless is expensive ($2000+ for transmitter and receiver) but works well, sounds good, and the transmitters are small. In contrast, telecoil inductive transmitters are inexpensive but bulky and have poor performance.

Hearing aid receivers don't work with throat microphones unless you use a FAF upshift (we recommend FAF upshifts only for Parkinson's, not for stutterers). The frequency range of hearing aids is typically 200-8000 Hz. Throat microphones are around 125 Hz, for adult males.

We don't sell wireless hearing aids. You can order from a hearing aid store.

Military Throat Microphone — $595

In a noisy environment nothing can beat a throat microphone. Our German-made military-grade throat microphone has excellent sound quality.

A throat microphone picks up your vocal fold vibrations (phonation) clearly, without distortion. This sounds different from the sound picked up by a headset or other air-transmission microphone. Sounds produced by your lips, jaw, and tongue (your articulators) are muffled and weak. Your vocal fold vibrations are loud and clear. This is of great value if your speech-languge pathologist has trained you to use gentle onsets or to relax your vocal folds when speaking.

As for noisy environments, this throat mike is used by astronauts, fighter pilots, and law enforcement. You could stand in front of a jet engine and the microphone would pick up only your voice.

The microphone is worn with an elastic neckband. We also include double-sided medical tape, which holds the microphone to your throat with the neckband worn loosely. The microphone is usually worn in the hollow at the base of the throat and is hidden if you wear a shirt with a collar.

A throat microphone is usually used with earphones. Order earbud earphones from us, or use your own earphones.

Consumer Throat Microphone — $75

The Chattervox consumer-grade throat microphone is fine for occasional use, such as public speaking. It rejects background noise reasonably well and the sound is acceptable.

A throat microphone picks up your vocal fold vibrations (phonation). This sounds different from the sound picked up by a headset or other air-transmission microphone. Sounds produced by your lips, jaw, and tongue (your articulators) are muffled and weak. Your vocal fold vibrations are loud and clear. This is of great value if your speech-languge pathologist has trained you to use gentle onsets or to relax your vocal folds when speaking.

We also include double-sided medical tape, which holds the microphone to your throat with the neckband worn loosely. The microphone is usually worn in the hollow at the base of the throat and is hidden if you wear a shirt with a collar.

A throat microphone is usually used with earphones. Order earbud earphones from us, or use your own earphones.

Holds the SmallTalk and a miniature earset. Wear on your belt or use shoulder strap. 20 cubic inches (3.25" x 5.5" x 2").