Audiogram Overview

An commonplace way that instead of a person's hearing loss is called audiogram. It looks like a chart of someone hearing capability. The style of audiograms that usually use is a regular symbols that representing objects on the chart. There are several types of audiograms.

The majority of audiograms cover the limited range 125 Hz (Hertz) to 7000 Hz (7 kHz). The range is the largest important part for understandable speech. They are not the same as equal-loudness contours, which are a set of curves representing equal loudness at different levels. You should test your hearing once every two or three years although you are not exposed to much noise.

Ranges have been established to help people identify how much difficulty they should expect from their hearing loss, audiogram can show the ranges of hearing loss. The ranges for children are different with the adult because they are not responding as quick as adults. A child may hear the sound but they may not understand what they should do. So that it will not give an accurate results. The children range are vary depending on their ages.

A mixed hearing loss is when the bone conducted entrances show a hearing loss and the air conducted entrances show an even greater hearing loss. When the hearing test is completed, the person should be able to tell how well they hear at low, medium and high pitches. If a hearing loss is present, they should also be able to tell which part of the hearing mechanism (the outside, middle or inner ear) is causing the loss.

By comparing the headphone entrances with the bone vibrator entrances at each pitch, an audiologist can decide if a hearing loss is conductive, sensorineural or mixed. If the air conduction entrances show a hearing loss but the bone transmission entrances are normal, then it is called a conductive hearing loss. If both the air conduction entrances and the bone conduction entrances show the same amount of hearing loss, it will call as a sensorineural hearing loss. The result of audiogram will tell you more about your hearing condition.

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