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Somers325 NY 100(914) 556-6720
Diagnostic hearing care
A full diagnostic evaluation: thresholds at every pitch, word understanding, and an ear examination.
Comprehensive Hearing Assessments
A comprehensive hearing assessment measures two different things: the softest sounds you can hear at each pitch, and how well you make out words. They are not the same measurement, and the gap between them is why someone can insist the room is loud enough and still miss half of what was said.
The appointment also includes looking in both ears and, when the picture calls for it, a middle-ear test (tympanometry) that shows whether the eardrum and the space behind it are moving normally.
What comes out is an audiogram and a recommendation. That may be hearing aids. It may be a medical referral, wax management first, or nothing yet except a baseline to measure against in a few years.
Step 1
We take the history: what changed, when, noise exposure, medications, ear surgery, and where listening breaks down.
Step 2
We look in both ears before any testing, because wax in the canal changes the result.
Step 3
You listen for tones through headphones across the pitch range, then repeat back words at conversational levels.
Step 4
Middle-ear testing is added when the pattern suggests a blockage rather than an inner-ear loss.
Step 5
We go through the audiogram with you, say what it means for restaurants and phones and the people you live with, and agree the next step.
Half the value of the audiogram is what it rules out: wax, a middle-ear problem, a one-sided loss that belongs with an ENT. Bring someone who talks to you every day. Their account of what you miss is information the test cannot produce.
Before you schedule
The most productive hearing-care visits start with specific examples. Bring the moments where listening breaks down, the devices or apps you already use, and the questions you want answered.
You hear that someone is speaking but cannot make out the words. The TV volume has crept up and somebody else has mentioned it.
We take the history: what changed, when, noise exposure, medications, ear surgery, and where listening breaks down.
Half the value of the audiogram is what it rules out: wax, a middle-ear problem, a one-sided loss that belongs with an ENT. Bring someone who talks to you every day. Their account of what you miss is information the test cannot produce.
No. A screening gives a pass or a fail. An assessment measures thresholds at each pitch, measures word understanding, and ends in a plan.
Book one when you notice a change. After that, your audiologist will suggest an interval based on your results, your noise exposure, and whether you wear hearing aids.
No. Some assessments end in monitoring, some in a wax appointment, some in a referral. Hearing aids are recommended when the results and your daily listening call for them.
Yes, with the charger and the phone app if you use one. Whether your existing devices still match your hearing is part of the answer.
Product information is educational. For personalized hearing aid recommendations, schedule an appointment with Audiology Associates of Westchester.