Real Ear Verification

An important part of hearing aid fitting is Real Ear Verification. The fundamental goal of hearing aid fitting is to help a patient hear and understand speech. During Real Ear Verification we use advanced, computerized equipment to measure the performance of your prescription hearing aids, while they are in your ears. Our system is wireless, so you don’t feel tied down by your ears.
The goal of Real Ear Verification is to maximize speech understanding, audibility and listening comfort. Real Ear Verification helps to bridge the gap between comfort and clarity when listening to speech and surrounding sounds. While audibility does not guarantee understanding, it is guaranteed that inaudible sound will not be understood.
Today’s hearing aids have numerous, technical features to manage different types of noise and speech. Real Ear Verification also helps identify how the combination of these special features work together to affect speech while maintaining comfort.
Real Ear results can be useful for helping patients, and those who accompany them, better understand the effect of the patient’s hearing loss. It shows how much speech is, or is not, audible. It is a tool for the Audiologist to show patients what hearing aids actually do. It also helps the patient recognize the improvement they are receiving and then accept the help they are receiving and commit to consistent use of their prescription hearing aids. It proves the adage of, “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
Real Ear Verification is recommended by professional organizations as a scientific means of proving that the fitting adjustments are providing the assistance the patient needs. It improves patient confidence in their decision to wear prescription hearing devices.
Real ear can also be useful in trouble shooting, when a patient is questioning the function of their hearing aids.