Our hearing consultation is a comprehensive ear health consultation and hearing test with a highly skilled audiologist.
I will complete a detailed assessment of your hearing to determine the presence, severity, and type of any hearing loss. Listening to your concerns, they will then build a detailed picture of your hearing needs, before working with you to form an individually tailored care plan, specific to your lifestyle.
Hearing assessment appointments take approximately 90 minutes to complete and start off with a review of your hearing.
Our audiologist will consider any personal health information related to your hearing difficulties and will ask you some questions about how it affects your daily life. They’ll also listen to any concerns you have.
To get a complete picture of your lifestyle, they will ask you a few questions.
Medical and ear health history
Otoscopy, to view your ear canals and ear health
This is simply putting on headphones and you listening for sounds. This test checks the whole of your auditory system to the point in the brain where you detect and identify sounds.
This uses the same sounds as the air conduction test, we put the sounds in using a different pathway. This test allows me to isolate parts of your hearing system and be clearer about what part of your hearing system is working well or might need help.
Sometimes even if your tests for beeps are within a normal range, I still want to check your hearing for speech.
This is a test of how your middle ear is functioning.
So that is my standard hearing assessment service. Using all the information I have just worked with you to get we will discuss your results, and I will give you some options for what I would like to work with you on that will enable you to hear and communicate the best you can.
At this point, particularly if you are new to all this, I want to make sure you have time and space as well as information to choose what you want to do next. I will provide you with a short report to take home immediately, but I will also write a more detailed report for you that I will send by email or post to you the following day. If you choose to discuss hearing technology immediately, we can carry on doing this, but equally you can go home and look at the information we have got together and discuss the next steps and recommendations with your family or friends. Your hearing assessment has been paid for and all the information is yours to take away.
If you have any questions about your hearing, or if you would like to book a clinic appointment, we’d love to hear from you.