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Glossary of terms used on this site
Like most professions, hearing care often uses terminology, jargon and abbreviations that may be unfamiliar to the general public. To make things easier, we're collating the words and phrases we use on this website into a helpful glossary.
On this website you'll also encounter new words and phrases that are not yet widely used on the Internet. That's because much of the terminology used within traditional hearing care is based on outdated ideas that no longer have a place in the 21st Century, either because they are misleading, discriminatory or have historically negative associations attached to them.
Glossaries
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| actual hearing | How a person currently hears, taking the full hearing chain into consideration. |
| audicity | The full capacity of a person's hearing ability, taking into consideration their natural hearing together with any technological enhancement and any remaining limitations resulting from factors such as biology, cognition and the environment. |
| audification | The process of matching sound to a person's hearing range. |
| audifier | Hearing technology used to augment the wearer's natural hearing, often to enhance speech and help separate voices from background noise. |
| audify | To match sound to a person's hearing range. |
| Audify® | The registered trademark of Audify Limited. |
| auditory training | Excercises and strategies used to enable a person to extract more information from what they are hearing, or make better use of it. |
| audivisor | A hearing care practitioner who specialises in maximising a person's hearing and listening. |
| augmented hearing | Natural hearing that has been made more effective using technology or other means. |