SPEECH & HEARING

A thorough hearing test is easy and painless, and it will get you started on your path to better hearing. A hearing test provides an evaluation of the sensitivity of a person’s sense of hearing and is most often performed by an audiologist using an audiometer.

A hearing aid is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss. Hearing aids are classified as medical devices and regulated by the respective regulations.

An audiometry exam tests your ability to hear sounds. Sounds vary, based on their loudness (intensity) and the speed of sound wave vibrations (tone). Hearing occurs when sound waves stimulate the nerves of the inner ear. The sound then travels along nerve pathways to the brain.

The Newborn hearing screening test helps identify babies who have permanent hearing loss as early as possible. we put a small ear probe in thebaby’s ear canal and then play a sound and the ear sends back an echo new born screening tests are completely painless.