Hearing Testing

I need to get my hearing tested, but I hate taking tests. What is a hearing test like? What all will a hearing test tell me?

This article explains the various steps in the hearing testing process when you go for a complete audiological evaluation, the purpose of each of these tests and what it means to you as a hard of hearing person.

  by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. © November, 2011. A student asked, What is the relationship between the SPL dB scale and HL dB scale? Good question. I’ll bet there are lots of hard of hearing people that are unclear about the differences between those two scales, and often treat these two terms as though they […]

 by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady wrote: My hearing loss has been described as “an air gap in the bone.” Whatever do they mean by that? What you really mean to ask is, “What is an air/bone gap?” When your audiologist does the pure tone hearing testing (the series of beeps at different frequencies and […]

Whenever I have my hearing tested, it seems the audiologist uses the same list of words each time. I can understand this for people who have never been tested before, but when I get my hearing tested regularly, isn’t this sort of ridiculous? I mean, I’ve half-memorized the word list so I’m not getting fair test results, am I?

This article explains the various tests using word lists, their purpose and what the results mean.