Many websites talk about hearing loss, they rarely mention how hearing loss changes our hearing in an acoustical and physiological process. The following is a brief summary on how hearing loss affect us. If you want to know more about the details, please check with your audiologist or email me.
Hearing loss affect these areas:
1) hearing sensitivity
2. Dynamic Range
3. Frequency resolution
4. Time resolution
5. Hearing with two ears.
People losing hearing sensitivity notices that certain soft sounds are no longer audible, a lot of normal daily sounds become too soft to hear. It affects the overall hearing audibility.
People suffering from reduced dynamic range consider medium level of sounds as soft sounds, loud sounds which acceptable by most people may become too loud to them. The hearing comfortable range will become a lot smaller than normal hearing.
For people to understand speech, our hearing system must have the ability to identify different pitches of sounds, e.g. “Sand” (high pitch ‘S’consonant) and “Band” (low pitch ‘B’consonant). Hearing loss can severely damage the ear ability to separate different pitches of sounds which make people hard to identify words in conversation. The frequency resolution problem can cause hearing difficulty in all situations.
Speech consists of many different elements in various speed, for instance strong vowels alternating with soft consonants. Hearing loss reduce the hearing system ability to separate the two sounds from each other (Time resolution). With poor time resolution in your hearing system, your speech understanding in background noise situations become difficult.
Brain constantly compare sounds received from the two ears (Binaural auditory processing) help us to locate the sounds and the movement of the sounds. The comparison process also help suppress unwanted sounds. Hearing loss can affect the sound localization and reduce speech understanding in noisy environment.
Hearing loss is not as simple as many people think. Sandgate hearing test Audiologists are trained professional to help people to understand their hearing problems and suggest hearing solutions.
Hearing loss affect these areas:
1) hearing sensitivity
2. Dynamic Range
3. Frequency resolution
4. Time resolution
5. Hearing with two ears.
People losing hearing sensitivity notices that certain soft sounds are no longer audible, a lot of normal daily sounds become too soft to hear. It affects the overall hearing audibility.
People suffering from reduced dynamic range consider medium level of sounds as soft sounds, loud sounds which acceptable by most people may become too loud to them. The hearing comfortable range will become a lot smaller than normal hearing.
For people to understand speech, our hearing system must have the ability to identify different pitches of sounds, e.g. “Sand” (high pitch ‘S’consonant) and “Band” (low pitch ‘B’consonant). Hearing loss can severely damage the ear ability to separate different pitches of sounds which make people hard to identify words in conversation. The frequency resolution problem can cause hearing difficulty in all situations.
Speech consists of many different elements in various speed, for instance strong vowels alternating with soft consonants. Hearing loss reduce the hearing system ability to separate the two sounds from each other (Time resolution). With poor time resolution in your hearing system, your speech understanding in background noise situations become difficult.
Brain constantly compare sounds received from the two ears (Binaural auditory processing) help us to locate the sounds and the movement of the sounds. The comparison process also help suppress unwanted sounds. Hearing loss can affect the sound localization and reduce speech understanding in noisy environment.
Hearing loss is not as simple as many people think. Sandgate hearing test Audiologists are trained professional to help people to understand their hearing problems and suggest hearing solutions.
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