Diagnostic Hearing Evaluations | Expert Audiology Care

1. Initial Consultation and Case History

Your hearing journey begins with a conversation.

For adults, we’ll discuss:

Medical History: Past illnesses, surgeries, or medications that may affect your hearing.
Hearing Concerns: Challenges you face in different environments, such as understanding conversations or hearing certain pitches.
Lifestyle and Occupation: Understanding your daily environment helps us tailor recommendations.

For children, we’ll focus on:

Developmental Milestones: Key stages of speech, language, and hearing development.
Birth and Family History: Any history of hearing loss or conditions affecting the ears.
Behavioral Observations: Reports of challenges in school, social settings, or at home.

Using a tool called an otoscope, we’ll examine the ear canal and eardrum for:

This step ensures the ears are healthy and free of obstructions before further testing.

For adults, we perform:

Pure-Tone Audiometry: Measures the ability to hear sounds of different pitches and volumes.
Speech Audiometry: Assesses speech understanding in quiet and noisy settings.
Tympanometry: Evaluates middle ear function by measuring eardrum movement.

Children require tailored, age-appropriate testing methods. Depending on their age and developmental level, we use:

Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)

For children aged 6 months to 2 years.
Sounds are played, and the child is trained to turn toward a visual reward (like a flashing light or animated toy) when they hear the sound.

For children aged 2 to 5 years.
Sounds are presented, and the child responds by performing a fun task (e.g., placing a block in a bucket) when they hear the sound.

Used for infants and young children.
Measures the response of the inner ear (cochlea) to sounds via a soft probe placed in the ear canal.
Non-invasive, quick, and often part of newborn hearing screenings.

Once testing is complete, we’ll review the results in detail:

For Adults: A personalized explanation of the audiogram and any identified hearing concerns, with recommendations for treatment, hearing aids, or further medical care.
For Children: A clear overview of the results, discussion of developmental impacts (if any), and tailored recommendations for treatment, therapy, or assistive devices to support language development.