10 warning signs of hearing loss
If you experience one or more of these warning signs repeatedly, you may have a hearing loss:

• People seem to mumble more frequently.
• You experience ringing in your ears.
• You often ask people to repeat themselves.
• Your family complains that you play the radio or TV too loudly.
• You no longer hear normal household sounds, such as the dripping of a faucet or the ringing of a doorbell.
• You have difficulty understanding a conversation when in a large group or crowd.
• You have trouble understanding all of the words in a conversation.
• You find telephone conversation increasingly difficult.
• You have trouble hearing when you have your back turned to the speaker.
• You have been told that you speak too loudly.

 

Typical age related hearing loss

This is a sample audiogram. The letters represent the frequency of common speech sounds in the English language. Click in box where it says Speech Banana on the lower right of the audiogram, and you will see where the common speech sounds fall within an audiogram.

On the right hand side of the audiogram you can click and select an age range. For each age you will see where an average hearing person would fall within the audiogram and which sounds they may be missing. All sounds above the line will be sounds that you are missing.