Hearing tests also referred to as hearing evaluation or hearing screening are done and should be done regularly to check your hearing quality. Under this method, your hearing ability is evaluated by checking the sensitivity of your year. This is done by a legit and licensed audiologist with an audiometer to know whether your hearing is good, mediocre, or low. The purpose of an audiometer is to determine the sensitivity that is felt in your ears when you hear noises of different frequencies or decibel levels. In this article, the readers and the viewers will learn about different types of tests conducted for hearing tests.
Types of hearing tests done by audiologists-
- Pure tone audiometry- the most commonly used hearing test on humans to test their hearing quality. Under this test, the patient sits inside a soundproof cabin with only headphones in the ears. Then the audiologist passes sounds of different frequencies ranging from 250Hz to 8000Hz. After each frequency, the patient might respond based on their hearing ability. Sometimes the audiologists go on to high pitch ranging from 8000Hz to 16000Hz.
- Weber and Rinne test- in this hearing test a tuning fork is placed behind the ear so that the patient can hear it as the tuning fork stops vibrating. Then this fork is placed in front of the ear, if you still hear the tuning sound then your ear is fine otherwise you have conductive hearing loss. This test determines whether the patient has conductive, sensorial, or neural hearing loss.
- Words in noise test- this hearing test is known as the WIN test uses monosyllabic words and a seven-noise pitch to determine whether the person can recognize the words even in a noisy background making it more functional to test a person’s hearing ability.
- Bone conducting testing- this form of a hearing test is done to make sure whether your middle ear or outer ear or in the sensory part of your ear is blocked with wax or fluid making your hearing ability slow down.
- Tympanometry- this hearing test is conducted to check the movements of your eardrums.
To conclude, the above-mentioned article mentions the types of hearing tests conducted.
