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What is an Audiologist?
An audiologist is the professional who specializes in the evaluation of people with hearing and other ear related disorders. Audiologists evaluate infants, children and adults and are trained to refer patients to a physician when a hearing problem needs medical or surgical intervention.
Plus, an audiologist administers tests of balance to evaluate dizziness and recommends and or dispenses hearing aids. Audiologists are usually in private practice, in otolaryngologist's offices, hospitals, nursing homes, schools and speech and hearing centers.
If you have a question about the information on this website or want to contact one of our audiologists, please call our office at 864-454-4368. Each audiologist has separate voice mail and return your call as soon as possible.
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Hearing Evaluations:
A basic, comprehensive audiological evaluation can be performed for any cooperative patient age four and up. The test includes pure tone thresholds recorded on an audiogram, speech recognition assessement and a middle ear function testing.
An audiogram is a graph of the way one hears. The audiologist presents pure tones of varying frequencies (pitches) to the patient, who responds when the tone is as soft as possible, but still audible. The graph indicates how loud each of these tones had to be presented to find the threshold response. Severity of hearing loss is measured by judging how far beyond normal limits the patient's responses occur. An adult responds with hand raising or button pushing. The test is modified for young children so that they may turn their head in the direction of sound coming from a speaker.
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