At Value Hearing our team of audiologists believe in empowering you! After taking the time to carefully understand your needs and hearing issues, we provide you with a clear understanding of your hearing loss and the hearing solutions available to you. Most clinics offer a free screening appointment, which is a simple 15–30-minute hearing check. We offer a detailed and complete assessment of your hearing as well as a detailed and easy to understand explanation of your hearing results.
In your appointment, an audiologist will ask you about your ear and hearing history to ensure we have the greatest understanding of your hearing challenges, needs and goals. This allows you and our clinician to explore your hearing related medical history, the difficulties, and frustrations you are experiencing with your hearing as well as to gain an understanding of your lifestyle and the impact hearing loss has on your day to day activities and your overall quality of life. We also pay attention to important things, such as your dexterity, vision, memory, tinnitus, family support structure and even take the time to notice the kind of mobile phone you use to tailor our recommendations in a manner that will best suit you. We take the time to listen with the aim of understanding without judgement or rush.
Our audiologist will look in your ears to visually inspect your ear canal and ear drum. We use a special video Otoscope that connects to a screen where you can see in your ears at the same time the audiologist. This way they can explain what they see, helping you to make sense of how we hear and the importance of your hearing, and your ear health in general. Following this, a middle ear pressure test, known as tympanometry, will then be performed to ensure there is no middle ear pathology or blockages. After this, pure tone audiometry is conducted to evaluate the sensitivity of your hearing. As part of our detailed process, we take the time to assess your unique ability to hear speech in the presence of background noise as well.
Once the hearing assessment is complete, these results are plotted on graph called an audiogram and a report is generated for you and your referring doctor or specialist.
Your audiologist will bring together all the tests as well as your challenges and concerns you mentioned, to help you understand why your hearing loss is affecting you in the way it does.
By completing this comprehensive assessment, we gain a complete understanding of the impact that your hearing loss has on you and others, the physical dimensions of your hearing, as well as your potential for improved hearing in quiet and in noise. This gives our audiologists a very clear perspective on your best course of action; whether it be to wait, to be referred for medical intervention or to consider hearing aids.
There are many reasons why a person may need a comprehensive hearing assessment.
This may include:
- A test to benchmark your hearing so if there is a change it can be compared to
this test - A person who has noticed a change in their hearing
- Someone who notices ringing in their ears, known as tinnitus
- People who require a hearing test as a pre-employment medical requirement
- Those with a family history/hereditary predisposition to hearing loss
- Someone who is looking to upgrade their hearing aids
- A person who is ready to purchase hearing aids and needs to the test to ascertain what hearing aids are best suited to their hearing loss
A hearing test at Value Hearing allows you to benefit from a detailed, thorough hearing assessment with unbiased recommendations.
In turn, we benefit from being given the opportunity to empower and ‘wow’ you. It is our promise that you are never rushed or put under any pressure nor feel obligated to continue with us after your hearing assessment. Because of this, we retain loyalty and trust - between 70% and 80% of people who choose Value Hearing decide to make us their choice as their hearing care provider. They continue their hearing journey, review hearing aid options and benefit from our After Care service.
Click HERE to book your comprehensive hearing test appointment with the audiology team at Value Hearing or call 1800 157 429.
