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Hearing Tests

If you're interested in having your first hearing test, chances are there's a hearing aid dispenser or audiologist near you that will give you one at no cost. Of course, their interest in doing so is to sell you a hearing aid, so be aware of that going in.

There are also some online hearing screenings that can give you a rough idea of the extent of your hearing loss.

September 2007 - BHI Site Introduces Hearing Loss Simulator

September 2007 - Indiana Jones &The Lost of Art of Tuning Fork Testing

February 2008 - BHI Asks for Help, Offers Prizes, in Validating Its Quick Hearing Check

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BHI Site Introduces Hearing Loss Simulator

September 2007

The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) has created a new tool to help America appreciate the impact of hearing loss. Featured on BHI's website, the tool, a hearing loss simulation site presents 21 sound simulations of normal and reduced hearing that are paired with pictures that simulate normal and reduced vision. The paired simulations will help people with normal hearing understand the listening challenges of someone with a hearing loss.

In a recent article on hearing loss simulation (Hearing Journal, July 2007) Zurek and Desloge present a compelling case for the use of simulation in the hearing healthcare field for counseling, hearing aid fitting, training, and in hearing conservation. A number of years ago Robinson and colleagues using an in-office sound-field, demonstrated that the use of hearing loss simulation results in:

* a significant reduction in hearing aid returns for credit and
* improvements in the ability to close a sale

In other words an individual is more likely to keep their new hearing aids when family members have empathic understanding of the seriousness of their hearing loss. Hearing loss simulation permits the family members to hear through their loved-one's ears. What a great way to facilitate communication, encouragement and acceptance of hearing solutions.

The BHI audio simulations are based on the work of Brian Moore and colleagues demonstrating how these listening situations sound to people with normal hearing, and mild and moderate sensorineural hearing loss; our thanks to Phonak for sharing these sound files.

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Indiana Jones &The Lost of Art of Tuning Fork Testing

September 2007

As in an Indiana Jones adventure, we search for the lost art of tuning fork testing like that used before the advent of modern electronic audiometers, impedance audiometry, real-ear measurement systems, and electroacoustic analyzers. Unearthed, our adventurer finds deep in the dusty bins of history a soft leather case containing six heavy-duty alloy tuning forks that resonate at the octaves of 128 Hz, 256 Hz, 512 Hz, 1024 Hz, 2048 Hz, and 4096 Hz (Figure 1). First proposed in 1550 A.D. by Italian physician Capivacci to determine the location of hearing disorders, it was not until Englishman John Shore developed a single tuning fork for tuning musical instruments at A423.5 cps that the modern tuning fork took shape. Thereafter, German physicist Chladni in 1800 developed a set of forks for testing human hearing.  Full Story

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BHI Asks for Help, Offers Prizes, in Validating Its Quick Hearing Check

February 2008

In our January 4th BHI newsletter, we announced our intent to further validate the BHI Quick Hearing Check (http://betterhearing.org/hearing_loss/quickHearingCheck.cfm) with the help of Ruth Bentler, PhD. We have received commitments to enter about 1,000 audiograms and speech test scores from hearing care professionals along with our Quick Hearing Check score. Please be advised that our request for this information is HIPAA compliant in that we do not ask for patient identifying information. We would like a sample size of about 5,000 subjects for this study and encourage hearing care professionals to participate at the following site: www.betterhearing.org/audiogram Full Story