Try This Test for Hidden Hearing Loss
Is it difficult for you to hear people in noisy places? In this case, a regular hearing test may not necessarily reveal a problem with your ears. But a new type of test that you can try right here should give a different result.
The test, developed for the Associated Press by the Mailman Child Development Center at the University of Miami, is simply a transcript asking you to repeat a few sentences. The trick is that with each sentence, the static background noise gets louder and louder. I’ve walked most of the way to the end of the track, but if you start having problems with the second or third sentence, you may have latent hearing loss .