To understand hearing loss, you first need to understand how healthy hearing works. The ear can be divided into four parts that receive and process sound before sending it to the brain for understanding. The diagrams below illustrate what happens when you hear normally and when you have hearing loss.
When we hear well, the ear is an
amazing instrument
Speech signals are conducted perfectly to the brain, enabling us to understand.
With hearing loss, something goes awry
Your brain receives an incomplete signal, so you are unable to understand correctly.
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