About Us
connections unlimited was established as a part-time sideline in the late 1980’s by Ted Simons, our President and CEO. At the time he was selling home entertainment equipment for a large department store chain that provided no installation and setup services for the many VCR’s, stereo systems, telephones, answering machines and other “light” consumer electronics products they sold. The company’s mantra at the time was, “If you can’t hook it up, we can”, hence the company’s name.
It was on one “moonlighting” service call that Ted was introduced to the world of hearing loss. A persuasive elderly gentleman tasked him to connect a “telecaption” decoder (something he had never seen) to his television and VCR. That was 1988. The client became a lifelong friend and seeking entertainment and communication solutions for him became the impetus for today’s connections unlimited, inc.
The company formally segued into the field of assistive technologies in 1992 when it became involved with the National Captioning Institute in an effort to spearhead a standardized national assistive listening technology in much the same way it drove for the creation of telecaptioning.
Three years later Ted volunteered to coordinate assistive listening technologies for the largest annual hard of hearing convention in the US, the SHHH National Convention (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People). This is a role he and members of our staff have filled ever since and it has provided invaluable insights to the needs of hard of hearing patrons and the technical and logistic challenges of serving those needs.
Today connections unlimited and its sibling companies ELT (Enhanced Listening Technologies Corp.) and ELT Design are known globally as innovators and purveyors of quality assistive listening and speech technologies. Now, through www.ALDSupply.com, we bring that commitment and expertise to a global online market.