Hearing Loss

From time to time, I see people writing, “I have 78% hearing loss in my right ear and 95% in the left.” What does this percent mean? I thought sound was measured in decibels (dB), not percent? If this is the case what percent is 115 dB?

This article explains how to describe our hearing losses and why hearing loss cannot be expressed as a percentage, but must be expressed in decibels.

I recently lost a lot of my hearing. Now I feel so alone. My family and friends just don’t understand what I am going through. I don’t know any one else who is hard of hearing. Where can I go to receive the understanding, support and friendship I crave so badly?

Hearing loss so often cuts hard of hearing people off from society. Here is one way to reconnect so that hearing loss isn’t a problem any more.

I have something called a cookie-bite loss. I have no idea what it is, but that is what my audiologist called it. I have also heard of ski-slope losses and losses with other weird names. What are they anyway?

This article explains what these weird names for hearing losses mean and illustrates them with audiograms so you can see at a glance what they are.

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