The Testing Experience

At your first appointment, your audiologist will begin by discussing your hearing health and history of the listening environments you have been exposed to and any diseases or injuries you may have experienced. At this time please tell the audiologist about any problems you are having with your ears and hearing difficulties.

Following this brief case history, you will be seated in a soundproof booth. A series of tones of different pitches will be presented to you and you will be asked to respond when you hear a tone. The softest level at which you are able to hear each individual pitch will be plotted on a chart (audiogram). Each ear will be tested separately, since the amount of hearing loss can be different in each ear.

After your hearing loss has been plotted, you will then be asked to repeat a list of words, which helps to better identify your speech understanding abilities.

Once the hearing test is completed, the audiologist will explain the results to you and make the approriate recommendations based on your hearing loss.