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2. Royal National Institute for Deaf People - Wikipedia

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   Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Region served. United Kingdom. Chief Executive. Harriet Oppenheimer. Website. rnid.org.uk. The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), known as Action on Hearing Loss from 2011 to 2020, is a charitable organisation working on behalf of the UK's 9 million people who are deaf or have hearing loss.

3. Pure-tone audiometry - Wikipedia

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   Pure-tone audiometry is the main hearing test used to identify hearing threshold levels of an individual, enabling determination of the degree, type and configuration of a hearing loss [ 1 ][ 2 ] and thus providing a basis for diagnosis and management. Pure-tone audiometry is a subjective, behavioural measurement of a hearing threshold, as it ...

4. Hearing test - Wikipedia

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   The standard and most common type of hearing test is pure tone audiometry, which measures the air and bone conduction thresholds for each ear in a set of 8 standard frequencies from 250Hz to 8000Hz. The test is conducted in a sound booth using either a pair of foam inserts or supraural headphones connected to an external audiometer.

5. Visual reinforcement audiometry - Wikipedia

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   Visual reinforcement audiometry (VRA) is a key behavioural test for evaluating hearing in young children. [1][2] First introduced by Liden and Kankkunen in 1969, VRA is a good indicator of how responsive a child is to sound and speech and whether the child is developing awareness to sound as expected. Performed by an audiologist, VRA is the ...

6. Audiometry - Wikipedia

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   A pure tone audiometry hearing test is the gold standard for evaluation of hearing loss or disability. [medical citation needed] Other types of hearing tests also generate graphs or tables of results that may be loosely called 'audiograms', but the term is universally used to refer to the result of a pure tone audiometry hearing test.

7. Audiology - Wikipedia

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   Audiology (from Latin audīre, "to hear"; and from Greek -λογία, -logia) is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Audiologists treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage. [ 3 ] By employing various testing strategies (e.g. behavioral hearing tests, otoacoustic ...