A type of assistive listening device that consists of a coil of wire laid around a room and hooked to an audio devices such as a television or public address system. The coil creates a magnetic field that transmits sound to people with hearing aids and telecoils who are sitting inside the loop. They hear […]

A graphic representation of a person’s hearing loss. More technically, a graph of a person’s hearing threshold levels (in decibels) plotted on a chart to show the softest sound a person can detect at various frequencies (typically between 250 and 8,000 Hz) from low pitch (left side) to high pitch (right side).

Tests conducted by an audiologist to determine whether a hearing loss is present, what tones (pitches) are affected, how severe the hearing loss is and the type of hearing loss. The evaluation also includes recommendations as to what should be done to ameliorate the hearing loss. Click on the following link for an in-depth article […]

(awe-dee-ALL-oh-jist) A health-care professional with a Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) or a masters degree in audiology and licensed by one of the audiology associations. Audiologists are trained to identify, measure and evaluate hearing loss and related disorders—including balance (vestibular) disorders and tinnitus—and to provide non-medical management of hearing loss, including hearing aids, assistive devices and rehabilitation.

The study or science of hearing. The profession of audiology is concerned with measurement and rehabilitation of auditory and communication problems.

A device for presenting precisely measured tones of specific frequencies (or speech and recorded signals) and intensity (loudness) levels in order to obtain an audiogram.