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Audio Streaming InformationUnderstanding & Reading Your Audiogram
by:
Stan Boston
After you have a hearing test, your hearing professional should show you a graph of how your hearing tested. This graph is called an Audiogram.
While many a individual hearing offices do up a form of their own to use in marking your test results, there are several basics that are used quite frequently. Name and contact information are simply a few of the things you wish find on the form. However, probably the most important thing you wish find on the form is the representation
graph.
This graph has most of the information you wish need to be fitted for a hearing aid properly.
There are two measurements used on an representation
to gauge how you presently
hear. These measurements are called Sound Frequency & Hearing Level:
The Sound Frequency is measured in Hertz, otherwise referred to as Hz. This activity is across the top and is generally tested in the range of 250Hz to 8000Hz. Humans have been best-known to hear from 20Hz to 20,000Hz. The lower the number, the lower the sound. Example: A man's voice is going to be found farther to the left than a woman's voice. Generally, consonants are found further to the right than vowels.
The Hearing Level, or HL, is measured in Decibels, or db. The important thing to cognize simply about decibels is that if a sound increases by 10 decibels, it doubles in loudness as we perceive it. A 0 (Zero) is considered to be the optimum (or normal) level of hearing. Most folk suffer several form of hearing loss though, even as if it hasn't reached a point wherever
a hearing aid or different device is needed. Sounds on the chart down to simply about 35db are considered soft sounds. From there to simply about 70db are considered to be moderate sounds. Above 70db is considered a loud sound.
The rest of this article, on
with sample audiograms can found in the Hearing Information section of Discount Valley.
Just simply about the Author
Stan Beantown is the general manager of Discount Depression Hearing Aid Supply.
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