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When people make a deafness compensation claim, one of the tests they are likely to undergo may be referred to as an audiogram.
This is actually a slight misnomer; the audiogram itself is the result of the test, a visual representation of hearing loss that records the results of a hearing test. The representation is in the form of a graph, with loudness on the vertical axis and frequency on the horizontal.
This gives a grid on which a line is plotted, showing how loud a noise at a certain pitch has to be for a person to hear it. Sometimes there will be two lines, showing the left ear and right ear separately; there may also be two audiograms, one for each ear.
The test is entirely painless, using a machine called an audiometer. It is performed by playing tones through earphones at specific volumes and recording the point at which the subject says they can hear the tone. This is then scored on the audiogram and repeated for other notes, after which the points can be joined into a line.
The loudness scale is written upside-down, with silence at the top and the very loud 120 decibel point at the bottom. This means that the lower the line is, the worse a sufferer's hearing loss is, as the note will have to be played at a higher volume.
Some hearing loss specialists include a "speech banana", which is a bent sausage-shape that indicates where most conversation sounds in English fall on the chart, in terms of pitch and volume. Even more specialist charts can break this banana down into the specific areas where individual letters fall, but this is likely to be more precise than most industrial deafness sufferers need to worry about.
No win, no fee solicitors for deafness compensation claims
Industrial deafness sufferers, we believe, should not have to worry about the costs of pursuing justice in the form of a compensation claim. For that reason we have developed a system that lets sufferers make their claims on a free basis.
We use no win, no fee solicitors from a panel of firms governed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, a branch of the Law Society, who operate a system that ensures their charges in won cases go to your opponent, never to you. We also guarantee that any damages awarded go entirely to you under our 100 percent compensation promise, with no cut taken by us.
Our advisors can discuss all details of your no win, no fee claim, without jargon, without demanding commitment from you, and without any cost. We'll help you decide if you want to proceed with a deafness compensation claim, and - if you do - we'll put you in touch with one of the UK's best hearing loss lawyers. You can chat to us online, complete a claim form or simply ring 0800 10 757 95 - we look forward to helping.
