A | B |
audiogram | a paper shows what you heard |
audiometer | a machine that makes beeps to measure what you hear |
audiologist | person who tests your hearing |
frequency | high and low sounds, goes across the top of the audiogram |
speech reception | level that you are able to hear a sound |
decibel | mesure of loudness |
speech descrimination | percent of words you heard said by the audiologist |
headphones | what you wear when your hearing is being tested |
Intensity | loudness, shown on the left side of the audiogram |
speech banana | part of the audiogram where all of the speech sounds can be heard |
50-65 decibels | normal conversation |
90 decibels | very loud and can hurt your ears |
10 decibels | very quiet and hard to hear |