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Pure Tone Audiometry First
For the Pure Tone test you sit in a soundproofed booth wearing headphones and are asked to press a button each time you hear a sound. You are then asked to repeat this action for a variety of different pitches at different volumes. A map of your hearing is created and this is called your audiogram.
Reading the Audiogram
The levels for hearing loss in decibels are clearly laid out on an internationally recognised dB scale. The degree of hearing loss is classified from mild (26-40 dB) to moderate, severe and then to a profound loss.
Air and Bone Conduction For more on Audiologist Taunton, take a look at imperialhearing.com/audiologist-near-me/taunton.
Bone conduction testing involves the use of a small bone conductor that is placed behind the ear. The audiologist then undertakes a bone conduction test and compares it to the air conduction results to determine the site of the hearing loss, whether this be the outer or middle ear or inner ear. Audiologist Taunton is worth getting right.
Speech Discrimination Testing
Even though the pure tone results may indicate that your hearing loss is only of mild severity, your inability to understand speech at certain volumes can indicate a greater loss of function than the dB levels suggest. We use speech discrimination testing to establish how well you can understand spoken words at certain volumes.
What the Classification Means Next
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