Hearing impairment is the incapacity of a person to hear any form of sounds. This can happen to a person right after birth, but there are some cases as well that a person loses their sense to hear because of accident, illnesses, or other incidents that could cause damage to the ears. There are some types of illnesses that could cause a person to be deaf, especially if it is taken care of immediately.

Hearing loss does have a solution, thanks to technology, hearing devices are always there to support those who have hearing impairment to experience how it feels to hear a sound, though it’s not that close as how we normally hear sounds. Hearing aids come in different types, according to how the user is being required.

There is a different classification of hearing impairment that should be identified not only to know them but to see if how they could help us in preventing hearing loss to happen.

As a severity of a hearing impairment is being ranked according to the loudness which is measured in decibels (dB)) that is before the sound is being detected by an individual. Hearing impairment is being ranked as mild, moderate, severe or profound as defined below:

Mild:

for adults: between 25 and 40 dB

for children: between 20 and 40 dB

Moderate: between 41 and 55 dB

Moderately severe: between 56 and 70 dB

Severe: between 71 and 90 dB

Profound: 90 dB or greater

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