Patient Management Plan (WM)

Your GP has referred you to the Adult Audiology and Hearing Aid Department at West Middlesex University Hospital for an assessment of your hearing.

The chart below will help you to get a general view where specific speech and environmental sounds lie. From top to bottom, you can see that sounds are getting louder, and from left to right, the tone of each sound is getting higher in pitch. This may help you and your family to understand the difficulties you are experiencing during communication.

These are the results of your hearing test:

• Mild hearing loss: May have difficulty following speech, especially in noisy situations. This type of loss is often noticed by family or friends first rather than one self. 

• Moderate hearing loss: Often have difficulty following speech and misses other quiet sounds. Amplification is very successful for this loss the hearing aid user also needs to use good listening tactics. Lip-reading classes could benefit people with this hearing level.

• Severe hearing loss: Unable to hear speech even in quit surroundings and may not hear general noises such as traffic, unless they are loud. Amplification is very successful for this loss, but the hearing aid user also needs to use good listening tactics. Lip-reading classes could benefit people with this hearing level.

• Profound hearing loss: Unable to hear most sounds unless they are very loud. Amplification is often useful but the hearing aid used will also need to rely on good listening tactics. Lip-reading classes would also be useful for people with this hearing loss. Patients in this category may also use BSL sign language and watch sign assisted programs.