A hearing test (usually used in testing people with cochlear implants) in which sentences are spoken against a background of white noise.

Describes people with any degree of hearing loss. This term is disliked by both deaf and hard of hearing people and is no longer politically correct. The preferred terms are “people with hearing loss,” “hard of hearing people” or “Deaf people”.

See Complete Audiological Evaluation.

See Hearing Dog.

A service dog that has completed a training course to alert its hard of hearing owner to a variety of sounds in different environments including such things doorbells, smoke alarms, wake-up alarms, baby cries, etc. Sometimes called “Hearing Ear Dogs” since all dogs can hear and thus are technically “hearing dogs”.

A relatively new term that encompasses both assistive listening devices (ALDs) and alerting devices for hard of hearing people.