A test that determines how well you can understand single-syllable words when they are heard at your most comfortable level. The results are expressed as a percentage. (See also Discrimination.)

A device for increasing or decreasing the volume (gain) of a hearing aid or assistive listening device.

Voice Carry Over allows people who are deaf or have limited hearing to speak directly to hearing people. When a standard telephone user speaks to you, a Communications Assistant (CA) serves as your “ears” and types everything said where it is displayed on your TTY or special VCO phone.

A hearing testing procedure for children in which the child’s responses to sound are reinforced with a visual event (such as a toy that moves). The audiologist attempts to condition the child to look for the toy when a sound is heard, thus providing a method for testing the hearing of small children. This procedure is […]

A small tube inserted into the eardrum that relieves the pressure of a middle ear infection by allowing fluid to drain from the middle ear. (Also called a Pressure Equalization Tube.)

Vertigo is the illusion or sensation of movement when none is present. If may feel like you are spinning around, or that the room is spinning around you. Frequently vertigo is accompanied by feelings of imbalance and/or nausea. Vertigo is a common result of damage to the balance system of the inner ear. Less often, […]