Aim of the project: The project aims to help people who work in the education of hearing-impaired persons and to help hearing-impaired persons themselves (hereinafter HIP) achieve better understanding of the latest compensatory/assistive aids and assistive technologies for HIP. Justification of the necessity: The dynamic progress of communication technologies is intensively reflected in assistive technologies for HIP. Around the world, new and more sophisticated equipment is being developed to eliminate the communication barrier between HIP and the majority of intact society. But when it comes to hearing aids, there is such a varied offer that it is very difficult for the non-hearing to establish orientation and choose a hearing aid that best suits their physiological needs and expectations for the level and type of hearing impairment. Modern digital hearing aids offer the possibility of individual settings across a range of parameters that eliminate interference from surroundings, respecting the frequency limit of the auditory system of each individual, and other specifics. To use these options, however, it is necessary to be able to “read” the technical parameters and be able to properly adjust the hearing aid. The same is the case with other aids such as headphones with the transmission of information via infrared or by radio transmission. Induction/hearing loops, the installation and use of which are the most prominent example of the technology installed in buildings and other places where there is a greater concentration of people, allow hearing-impaired persons to receive an audio signal in their hearing aid through the electromagnetic field of a distributed induction/hearing loop directly and without any interference from the surroundings. In this area, there is an extensive range of equipment of different performance and quality, where the orientation is difficult for designers, investors and other interested professionals and stakeholders. Dynamically developing areas with the tremendous potential for use by HIP include “smart phones”. They already offer HIP a number of specific, very useful applications, and whose number is increasing day by day. All new technologies and aids are completely useful, but only when they are optimally selected and optimally adjusted individually. And for this, it is necessary to have adequate information. Ear doctors, the staff of counseling centers of HIP organizations, social service providers, and others do not have this information as needed. Altogether, they are focused only on a particular segment of the offer in response to what the manufacturer of the aid is offering. In most cases, an overview of the offers of other manufacturers is missing. Surveys conducted both among persons with hearing impairments and the aforementioned entities providing sales and consulting services in the segment show that the creation of a clear and systematically annotated catalog of assistive devices and assistive technologies, including a description of their optimal use, adjustments and maintenance, would be a great benefit. The applicant and its partners have been involved in this project for many years, have direct contacts with leading companies engaged in the development, manufacture, distribution and follow-up service in Europe, the US, as well as in China and Korea. They are therefore able to combine their efforts in creating a catalog of this sort. Their many years of experience in the education of hearing-impaired persons and the workers providing services to these persons qualify them to supplement the aforementioned catalog with a methodology for educating target groups. Project outputs: In addition to developing a methodology and interactive, annotated catalog that provides not just basic technical parameters, information and contacts, but also a wealth of video material – tutorials, examples of correct and incorrect applications, examples of good practice, assessments and user feedback on individual devices and technologies. The aim of the project is to use this methodology to directly train 90 professionals working in the field of assistive technologies and assistive devices, and 150 persons with hearing impairment in the home country of the applicant and in the countries of its partners. Target groups: 1) Professionals working in the field of assistive aids and other assistive technologies for HIP (doctors, professional consultants, staff of counseling centers for hearing-impaired persons, and dealers and service staff for assistive devices and assistive technologies for the non-hearing) 2) Providers of social services for hearing-impaired persons 3) Teachers, educational counselors and the technical staff of kindergartens, primary and secondary schools for the hearing impaired 4) The staff of centers for students with special educational needs at universities. 5) Designers, architects, investors, the staff of building authorities, 6) Hearing impaired persons(HIP)