Week # 11
This week in Clinic I was retesting a female student. She had been in our clinic before and her puretone air and bone conduction thresholds left us wondering. She is a student and is also a member of the band. She originally seeked a hearing evaulation because of the loud environment she is in so often due to the band. She has played an instrument since elementary school. At the time of her first appointment, our clinic was having a little equipment problems and so a second audiological evaluation was recommened.

During this second audiologic evaluation, threholds were found to be within the normal limits bilaterally. SRT scores were in great agreement with PTA and word recognition scores were 100% in both ears. She was encouraged to wear hearing protection while playing and was given a few pairs to take with her. She was also reassured that the first results were due to the malfucnion of our equipment and that her hearing results looked perfect.

I found this artilce that has to do with malingering or non-organic hearing loss. This is not a case study more of a guide and what we can do as clinicians. I thought it was interesting. Since we were are all worried about this patient and some had concerns that she was possibly faking, I thought this went well with this patient. Thankfully, for our patient, everything turned out OK in the end.

Check it out, i hope you like it :)

Austen, S., & Lynch, C. (2004) Non-organin hearing loss redefined: understanding, categorizing, and managing non-organic behavior. International Journal of Audiology, 8, 449-457.

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=5&hid=109&sid=e96a8942-9c85-4d8d-8101-9dbf40198a15%40sessionmgr108