{"id":1825,"date":"2013-11-11T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entmidwest.fm1.dev\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2022-12-15T12:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:17:29","slug":"airport-security-and-hearing-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/airport-security-and-hearing-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Security and Hearing Aids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><u>Airport Security and Hearing Aids<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people question if it is safe to go through the scanners at the security checkpoints with their hearing aids.&nbsp;&nbsp; According to the TSA website, it is not necessary to remove your hearing aids, but you should inform the security officers that you have them.&nbsp; It is actually better to leave the hearing aid(s) in your ear(s) so that you can better hear instructions and answer questions from the Security Officers.&nbsp; If you still feel uncomfortable going through the scanners because of your instruments, you can ask for a full-body pat down.&nbsp; If this is the case, the security officer may ask to inspect your device if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always ask (politely, of course) the security officers to look directly at you so that you can better understand what they are saying to you.&nbsp; Simply explain you are hearing impaired and that it would be better if they could look directly at you.&nbsp; You should then have no problem going through airport security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airport Security and Hearing Aids Many people question if it is safe to go through the scanners at the security checkpoints with their hearing aids.&nbsp;&nbsp; According to the TSA website, it is not necessary to remove your hearing aids, but you should inform the security officers that you have them.&nbsp; It is actually better to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hearing-aids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}