Adult hearing
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KAM HearingMatching centerHearing Loss in Adults
Causes and Signs
The impact of hearing loss varies from person to person. It greatly depends on the degree and configuration of hearing loss. However, hearing loss would, at least to certain extent, results in distorted or incomplete communication which leads to greater isolation and withdrawal. In turn the individual's life space and social life becomes restricted. While for those who are still in the workforce, uncorrected hearing loss has a negative impact on overall job effectiveness, opportunity for promotion and perhaps lifelong earning power.
Hearing loss in adults has many causes such as middle ear infection, head injury, tumors, viral infection in the inner ear and over-exposure to noise.
Hearing Assessment
for Adults
The Audiological Department is formed by a professional team whose duties include locating the site of lesion, assessing and monitoring the status of client's auditory system, tinnitus counselling, audiology counselling such as information provision and support, making recommendations and referrals and assisting clients to develop appropriate strategies to enhance communication.
We provide the following hearing assessment services for adults:
Hearing Assessment
PTA is a behavioural test used to establish the hearing threshold, the softest sound that can be perceived in a controlled environment.
Tympanometry records changes in middle ear immittance with varying air pressure in the ear canal. It is a test used to detect disorders of the middle ear.
ABR is generated from auditory nerve, subsequent fibre tracts and nuclei within the auditory brainstem pathways. Sounds are introduced through the earphones to the patients’ ear, and a few electrodes are attached to the patient to record the response.
ASSR are brain response elicited by continuous steady-state modulated tonal acoustic stimuli. It is an objective frequency-specific hearing assessment which can be used to obtain detailed hearing sensitivity and auditory status in difficult to test patients.
Hearing aid
fitting
