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How are hearing losses named and classified on an audiogram?

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This is a picture of an audiogram showing something known as the "Speech Banana." All the sounds that allow us to understand and therefore communicate with each other fall into that shape. Below is a maginfied image of the Speech Banana highlighted with the effected areas of "Mild" and "Moderate" hearing loss. read more

WHO has classified the degrees of hearing loss, taking the average of hearing thresholds for 500, 1000 and 2000 Hz pure tones. The grading of the hearing loss based on the audiogram are below: Normal: 0-25 dB; Mild: 26-40 dB; Moderate: 41-55 dB; Moderately severe: 56-70 dB; Severe: 71-91 dB; Profound: more than 91 dB. Total Hearing loss. read more

Classification of hearing loss on the basis of Audiogram depends on some factors which are given below: -1. The shape which graphed out on audiogram chart. 2. By Frequency. 3. By the level of loss or seriousness at each frequency. Because of complexity, these losses are divided into two parts. read more

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