A hearing loss present at birth, or associated with the birth process, or which develops in the first few days of life. It may or may not be hereditary.

A form of hearing loss arising in the external ear canal, ear drum or middle ear. It refers to anything that impedes or blocks the passage of sound through the outer and/or middle ear sections by preventing or not effectively transmitting sound to the inner ear. A conductive loss could result from something blocking the […]

Same as Conditioned Audiometry.

Same as Conditioned Audiometry.

A type of hearing testing used with young children. Children are trained (conditioned) to perform some activity (e.g. dropping a block in a box, pressing a toy button, put a peg in a hole etc.) in response to sounds. The audiologist uses an audiometerset at varying levels of loudness to assess the child’s hearing loss.

Another name for an in-the-ear (ITE) or full-shell hearing aid.