Medical Legal Hearing Tests

Medico-Legal Services

The Sound Clinic has been offering Medico-Legal services for more than ten years and offers a bespoke testing and reporting service. With prime locations covering Essex and East London together with excellent road, train and underground connections, we are ideally situated for all clients to visit us.

We offer Medico-Legal services for clients locally and across the UK, ranging from small solicitor companies to claim handlers with hundreds of noise induced hearing loss claimants.

Audiological Testing

Pure Tone Audiometry With regard to Medico-legal Noise Induced Hearing Loss [NIHL] both screening and diagnostic Pure Tone Audiograms [PTA] can be undertaken for the different types of purposes you may require. Where clinically required we test with insert earphones.

Tinnitus and Balance Rehabilitation

Our Clinical Scientist registration and our highly trained team assess and provide tailored rehabilitation programmes to clients with balance (vestibular) and tinnitus disorders which can arise in NIHL cases and through personal injury / accident index incidents.

Medico Legal Reporting

Once we have conducted a full audiogram, comprising of air & bone conduction with full masking where necessary, we can establish if requested if the case is a positive or negative.

Subjective Hearing Tests

Objective hearing tests are usually performed in patients who cannot tell whether they hear a sound or not. They use body functions to assess hearing. Subjective tests rely on the cooperation of the patient. During a subjective hearing test, the audiologist will play sounds and assess the patient’s reaction in response to these sounds. The results determine the degree and type of hearing loss.

Pure-tone audiometry (PTA)

During a pure-tone audiometry the test person sits in a quiet room and listens to pure tones at different pitches that are presented via headphones. As soon as the test person hears the sound, they show a reaction (raise a hand, press a button, …). The audiologist takes notes of the softest tone that was heard at each frequency (“pitch”).

Speech audiometry

Speech audiometry is a basic tool for hearing loss assessment. During speech audiometry, the test person is seated in a quiet room using headphones and is required to repeat commonly known words. These words are played at different volumes. The audiologist will define the speech reception threshold, i.e.

Behavioral (observation) audiometry

Behavioral audiometry is used for younger children (0-3 years). The audiologist observes the child’s reaction to sound (noise, music, etc). Reactions vary and include stopping an ongoing activity, calming, turning the head, looking for the sound source. Every reaction to sound is rewarded, e.g.

Conditioned play audiometry

This is a type of behavioural audiometry for older children (2-5 years). It utilizes a child’s longer attention span in a playful way using headphones for the first time. Common games include dropping a ball or a toy into a bucket. Like typical pure-tone audiometry, the child hears tones at different frequencies.

our team of clinical audiologists have extensive experience in carrying out assessments, treatment, rehabilitation, and management of patients. We adhere to clinical and legal guidelines to carry out hearing loss assessments for our legal intermediaries.

We will ensure we meet the criteria level you require, so it proves beneficial to the patient suffering from hearing loss / tinnitus and cost effective for our medico-legal colleagues.

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