please explain to me what is a audiological assessment? what happens etc…
thank you
laura
Re: audiological referral
An audiologist will do several things as part of his testing. We had one done in February. We knew going in that our daughter had auditory processing deficits and language deficits. He split the auditory progressing part of the evaluation tinto four parts: auditory sensitivity, auditory decoding, auditory attentionand auditory memory. An audiologist will be able to tell if your child has auditory processing problems( the ears hear correctly, but the brain doesn’t process the info correctly). There are problems with similar sounds and it takes a while for the child to respond to any oral prompt. An audiologist can also do an evaluation of language processing if it is necessary.
I hope that this info is helpful
Judy.laura wrote:
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> please explain to me what is a audiological assessment? what
> happens etc…
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> thank you
> laura
A child is given an examination of his hearing through different methods to assess hearing acuity one is with air conduction through the administration of pure tones given at 500hz, 1000hz, 2000hz, 4000hz and 8000hz. The tones are presented at 20db to start and a child with normal hearing acuity will score within 0 to 25 db on the average. To see what the child’s threshold is or the minimum amount of tone that is given so that he can hear it. Another type of test is called bone conduction and a probe is placed against the skin behind the ear on the boney part of the skull. A tone is given and the child responds as they hear the tone. A bone conduction test shows if there is a problem with the middle ear and sometimes individuals have better bone conduction than they do air conduction responses. A tympogram is given to determine if the child has reflexes both (contralateral-both sides)and (ipsilateral-one side) to a tone that is introduced to the ear. A speech discrimination and recognition test is done to determine where a person has at least 50% speech discrimination is it 25db, or 40db. Most people speak at about 45dB..
A more thorough assessment can be done if the child has CAPD. These are tests that determine how the child listens in background noise, how they hear with one ear vs. both, how the process information, their auditory memory and ability to focus and attend to auditory stimuli through an auditory continuous performance test.