Speech audiometry (verbal audiometry with headphones)

Date booking: Required

Referral: Not required

Age range: Patients over the age of 8 who can cooperate with the examiner.

Waiting time for the result: Result available immediately after the test.

Price list

Lublin
  • Speech audiometry (verbal audiometry with headphones)


Preparation

No

Description of the study

The test is performed using earphones in a sitting position. The patient repeats the words heard in the headphone, administered separately to each ear. The verbal test is used to check the effectiveness of the central processing of the speech signal.
The duration of the test is several to several minutes.

Indications

  • hearing loss assessment,
  • Assessing the threshold of speech understanding according to hearing loss,
  • An examination to assist in the selection of hearing aids,
  • Differentiating extracochlear hearing loss.