Aural Rehabilitation Glossary

An assistive listening device that wirelessly transmits a speaker's voice via radio frequency directly to a receiver wor...

Acronym for the Glasgow Hearing Aid Benefit Profile, a validated questionnaire measuring hearing aid benefit across mult...

A structured, facilitated intervention delivered to multiple hearing-impaired participants simultaneously, combining inf...

An instructional session or programme in which a new hearing-aid user is taught device handling, maintenance, and basic...

A World Health Organization–aligned term describing the functional limitations in daily activities arising from a hearin...

A validated self-report questionnaire measuring the social and emotional consequences of hearing loss in adults aged 65...

A licensed or certified professional trained to fit, dispense, and provide basic follow-up care for hearing aids, but wi...

An assistive listening system that transmits sound electromagnetically via a wire loop to the telecoil (T-coil) of a hea...

A structured clinical evaluation identifying the specific communication environments, activities, and priorities that sh...

A validated questionnaire or assessment tool used to evaluate the benefit, satisfaction, or quality of life impact of au...

Practical behavioural strategies employed by a person with hearing loss to optimise listening conditions in everyday sit...

The intensity, expressed in decibels (dB HL), at which a pure tone is just audible to a listener 50% of the time, measur...

Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults; a self-report questionnaire measuring the psychosocial and situational effects of...

The difference in sound pressure level at the eardrum between the aided and unaided conditions, expressed in decibels ac...

A brief seven-item self-report questionnaire assessing hearing-aid outcomes across dimensions including use, benefit, re...

The input sound level at which a hearing aid's amplifier transitions from linear to compression amplification.

The cognitive and attentional resources a person must expend to understand speech, which increases as acoustic condition...

An abnormal, rapid growth of perceived loudness with increasing sound intensity, commonly associated with sensorineural...

Acronym for Minimal Clinically Important Difference; the smallest outcome measure score change considered meaningfully b...

A partially or fully implantable hearing device that drives one of the ossicles or the round window membrane directly, u...

The smallest change in an outcome measure score that a patient or clinician would consider meaningful, used as a benchma...

The decibel level at which a listener perceives sound as most comfortable, used to calibrate hearing aid output targets.

A widely used prescriptive hearing aid fitting formula developed by the National Acoustic Laboratories of Australia that...

Permanent or temporary hearing loss resulting from prolonged or sudden exposure to high-intensity sound, characterised b...