March 19, 2007

Today I saw 3 hearing evaluations. Two of the men were from Environmental Health and Safety. The one gentelman had hearing thresholds within normal limits bilaterally. The other man had a gradually falling high frequency hearing loss bilaterally. Hearing protection was recommended for both men, but they stated they already had some.
The last client I saw was a man from a group home. His caregiver stated he had cerumen removed about a month ago. His tympanograms were normal bilaterally. Soundfield testing was used and he responded at 5-10 dB HL. Testing was still being performed when I had to leave.

March 12, 2007

The client was a 15 yr old girl. She had been brought in for possible central auditory processing disorder. During the case history, the mother stated that the girl had frequent ear infections since childhood. Otoscopy was performed and revealed some wax in the ears. Tymps were normal. ART was performed, but I did not see the results chart, I think they were normal. Pure tone air conduction testing revealed thresholds within normal limits bilaterally. I did not get to see the CAPD testing because it did not start until after my observation session was over.

March 5, 2007

Only one client was seen in morning clinic. She had come here in the early 90's and had her hearing evaluated and purchased aids. Her original configuration was very interesting; she had a loss in the low and high frequencies, but at 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz, she was within normal limits. She came in last Wednesday to have her aids checked/cleaned and it was determined that she might need new aids. She came back in today to have a full audiological evaluation. ART was tested, but decay was not. SRT and WR testing were performed first. The client had rather poor scores...I didn't get to see the actual scores, but from what I heard, she missed quite a few. The audiogram had also changed. At most frequencies it was only 5 dB lower, but at one it was 20 dB lower. They had just placed the bone oscillator on the client when my time was up.