Understanding your child's hearing tests: For families

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Learn about the different types and levels of deafness and the different hearing tests used to check a child's hearing. This resource explains:

• the ear and how it works
• different types of deafness
• audiograms (a chart on which your child’s hearing test results will be written).

It also has information on the different medical tests or investigations that are used to help diagnose the cause of permanent deafness.