An optional accessory to the TEMPO cochlear implant by Med-El that allows the user to take advantage of two features–a built-in telecoil for accessing certain assistive listening devices, or an external microphone.

A text telephone that allows people with very limited hearing or no hearing to communicate over the phone. Rather than speaking into the phone and listening, a person types and reads. It uses Baudot code which has largely been rendered obsolete by the widespread use of digital technology.

A temporary (lasting less than a day) hearing loss due to exposure to loud sounds. Repeated exposure to sound loud enough to cause TTS can eventually lead to permanent hearing loss–a Permanent Threshold Shift.

See Teletype.

In audiometry, the softest sounds (usually pure tones or speech) a person can detect 50% of the time. The term is used for both speech and pure tone testing.

(TIN-ih-tus or tih-NIGH-tus) A sensation (subjective perception) of various (phantom) noises in the ears. Tinnitus is variously described as ringing, roaring, clicking, humming, buzzing, swishing, whooshing, clanging, shrieking and other similar sounds that seems to originate in your ears or head. It is not a disease, but a symptom of various abnormal underlying condition it […]