COMPREHENSIVE AUDIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC TESTING

Area Hearing Center understands the daily frustrations of hearing loss and personal challenges of each individual's hearing impairment. Hearing loss encompasses multiple areas of the ear and makes it imperative for the Doctor of Audiology to complete an Audiological examination to determine your individual hearing healthcare needs and establish a case history.

While investigating your hearing difficulties, a complete diagnostic Audiological evaluation assesses the entire ear (outer, middle, inner ear) to determine your ability to hear and understand speech. The complete assessment performed by Dr. Lara Royster Gray, Au.D. will ensure accurate determination of your hearing impairment and appropriate medical management and treatment. Area Hearing Center's personal working relationship with local Ear Nose and Throat Specialists provides our patients prompt medical referrals ensuring continued medical care utilizing our entire hearing healthcare team.

AUDIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC TESTING

• Personalized Patient Medical and Hearing Case History
• Otoscopic Examination ( outer ear assessment )
• Tympanometry (middle ear analysis)
• Acoustic Reflex Threshold Measurement Testing
• Standard Pure Tone Air Conduction Threshold Testing
• Standard Pure Tone Bone Conduction Threshold Testing
• Clinical Masking (analysis of each ear's integrity)
• Speech Reception Threshold (lowest audible speech input)
• Speech Discrimination Testing (ability to understand speech)
  
• Otoacoustic emissions (OAE) testing