Along with representing your levels of hearing loss an audiogram can also show where your hearing lies when wearing your hearing technology. The levels of hearing that you achieve when wearing hearing aids, cochlear implants or bone conducting hearing implants are called ‘aided thresholds’. They are also sometimes referred to as ‘functional gain’. This simply means when wearing your hearing aids what are the softest sounds that you are able to hear.
Aided Audiometry
However it is worth remembering that these represent:
- The quietest sounds detected when presented in the quiet environment of an audiology clinic.
- The quietest sounds detected when the hearing aid or cochlear implant is set to a particular gain or programme at the time of testing
- Aided thresholds is important information to know if you are working with children who are wearing hearing technology as gives you an idea of what hearing levels are like when their technology is working.
