Hearing Test: What You Need to Know
If you suffer from any hearing loss we encourage you to see a hearing professional to properly diagnose your hearing issues and to ensure that a hearing aid is appropriate for your condition.
Your hearing professional will provide you with an audiogram – which specifies your unique hearing loss. You can also receive a hearing test and audiogram from various online websites.
For mild cases of hearing loss where you may need a little help hearing in a meeting, watching TV, or in a conversation there are some products that provide a boost or amplification in sound an audiogram may not be required. Any other hearing loss that is more severe you should seriously consider a hearing aid that is customized to your particular hearing loss based on your audiogram.
Our Review of Hearing Aids
Mild Hearing Loss
- Unable to hear between 20 dB and 40 dB.
- May miss up to 45% of speech content.
- Difficulty understanding normal conversation.
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Moderate Hearing Loss
- Unable to hear between 41 dB and 70 dB
- May miss 50-75% of the speech content
- Problems hearing consonants in words
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Severe Hearing Loss
- Unable to hear sounds greater then 71 dB
- May miss up to 100% of speech content
- Only very loud close range speech is heard
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Behind The Ear (BTE) Hearing Aids
- Plastic case sits behind the ear
- Used for mild to severe hearing loss
- Minimizes earwax damage
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In The Ear (ITE) Hearing Aids
- Designed to fit inside an ear
- Used for mild to severe hearing loss
- Less visible then Behind the Ear Aids
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