Hearing Test

Our auditory sense is one of the most important with regards to communicating with others and with functioning well at work. Due to age or accidents, our ability to hear clearly can be affected slightly or severely. Some accidents even lead to complete loss of hearing. One way to assess your hearing ability is by taking a hearing test.

Hearing tests are special procedures conducted by doctors and clinicians specializing in hearing disorders. When patients suspect a possible hearing disorder due to a variety of complaints, such as the inability to hear noises beyond a certain threshold, or if friends and family end up complaining about the patient’s penchant to ask for a sentence to be repeated, or how he listens to the television or the radio at unbearably high volumes.

Once the hearing tests have been conducted, all the information will be recorded on a graph called the audiogram, which is a tabulation of how well a person can perceive sound at different frequencies.

The hearing test itself, conducted by an audiologist, will be held in a special room designed to keep out sound. He will then begin to administer a series of tests designed to check for your ear’s ability to perceive frequencies.