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Audiometry Consultation
We offer comprehensive advice on available hearing solutions, including hearing aids, cochlear implants and implantable devices. Using up-to-date technology, we help you identify the option that best suits your needs.
Audioclinique: your hearing centre, with specialist audiometry consultations.
Your hearing health is our priority. Audioclinique offers comprehensive services supported by qualified professionals, including specialist audiometry consultations.
Our audiometry specialist can help with:
- Detailed hearing assessment: Pure-tone and speech audiometry to determine hearing levels and word recognition, helping to identify any difficulties.
- Adaptive tests in noise: These simulate complex everyday listening conditions in which noise changes dynamically (Matrix, STARR and ACT tests).
- Interpreting results: Detailed analysis of test results and a clear explanation of your hearing profile.
- Ongoing monitoring: Regular checks to follow progress over time.
- Working with other specialists: A multidisciplinary approach with speech and language therapists, audiology specialists, ENT doctors and others provides a complete picture and supports a personalised rehabilitation plan.
Audiometry consultation is essential to accurate assessment and selecting suitable solutions. Audioclinique provides professional, attentive support for comprehensive hearing care.
ADAPTIVE TESTS
In everyday life, speech levels can change rapidly from moment to moment, creating particular challenges for hearing aid and cochlear implant users.
Adaptive tests have long been studied for their role in assessing hearing device benefit. They aim to represent everyday listening conditions as realistically as possible.
These tests measure absolute benefit to verify fitting, or relative benefit when comparing devices or different settings on the same device. Speech material is arranged in lists of phonemes, words or sentences. Greater or lesser redundancy in the content can make recognition easier or harder.
Developed in Oldenburg, Germany, the Matrix Test is a speech audiometry test that simulates challenging listening environments. It uses five-word sentences with fixed syntax but unpredictable meaning. With 100,000 possible unique sentences, it is available in several languages and used in many audiology and ENT departments. Its objectivity and validity make it an evolution of conventional speech audiometry.
During the Matrix Test, the patient repeats words heard against background noise. Software adapts the difficulty to the responses. The SRT (speech reception threshold) expresses the difference between speech and noise levels: values nearer to or below zero indicate better results.
The STARR test (Sentence Test with Adaptive Randomized Roving Level) uses familiar, semantically predictable sentences. Speech and noise levels vary continually, testing speech at low, medium and high levels. STARR was developed to obtain reliable SRT measurements with varying signal levels, allowing assessment of how cochlear implant or hearing aid settings—such as automatic gain control compression or noise reduction algorithms—affect speech recognition in device users with hearing loss.
It comprises 10 lists of 15 sentences recorded by a male speaker. Sentences are presented at 50, 65 and 80 dB SPL. The patient repeats each as accurately as possible. After a correct response, the next sentence uses a less favourable signal-to-noise ratio; after an incorrect response, a more favourable ratio is used.
What it is used for
- Assessing the degree of hearing loss: Audiological tests identify its severity and specific characteristics.
- Offering personalised solutions: Identifying a device or approach suited to individual needs, such as hearing aids, cochlear implants or other implantable devices.
- Guidance on technology: Helping you navigate available technologies for the best possible comfort and function.
- Supporting adjustment: Ongoing support to help you use the selected device effectively and meet your expectations.
- Improving quality of life: Supporting hearing helps restore effective communication, greater independence, social interaction and personal wellbeing.
Who is it for?
- People with hearing loss: People of any age who have difficulty hearing or understanding sounds and conversations.
- Older adults: People with age-related hearing loss who want to improve their social lives and relationships.
- Active adults: Professionals and workers needing effective hearing solutions for work and social life.
- Children and teenagers: Young people with hearing difficulties, supporting language, cognitive and social development through personalised solutions.
- Sports and technology enthusiasts: People wanting advanced, discreet devices compatible with an active lifestyle.
- People following ear surgery or hearing trauma: Supporting the best possible recovery through suitable devices or treatments.
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