What to Expect at Your Evaluation
Hearing evaluations typically take up to one hour and include the following tests:
- Otoscopy: assesses the appearance ear canal and ear drum
- Tympanometry: assesses the ear drum and middle ear to look for excessive fluid or foreign bodies
- Pure tone testing: assesses the inner ear (i.e. cochlea) to look for the softest level sound that can be heard
- Speech testing: assesses the impact hearing loss has on communication abilities
Hearing Aid Evaluations:
- Lifestyle Assessment
- Environment Assessment
- Speech Discrimination in Noise Evaluation
Adult Evaluations:
- Otoscopy
- Immittance Testing
- Otoacoustic Emissions
- Pure Tone Testing
- Speech Testing (in quiet and against background noise)
Auditory Processing Disorder (ADP) Evaluations:
- Audiological Evaluation
- Random Gap Detection
- Speech in Noise Testing
- Competing Words
- Filtered Words
- Competing Sentences
- Time Compressed Sentences
- Other auditory processing measurements deemed necessary based on the above testing
Pediatric Evaluations:
- Otoscopy
- Immittance Testing
- Otoacoustic Emissions
- Pure Tone Testing*
- Speech Testing
*Any combination of the following may be used for pure tone testing depending on the age and developmental level of the child:
- Conventional Audiometry
- Behavioral Observation Audiometry
- Visual Reinforcement Audiometry
- Conditioned Play Audiometry