Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results of hearing tests on 14 children suspected of nonorganic hearing loss and to advocate some diagnostic procedures to avoid incorrect nonorganic hearing loss.
The effective test methods were: (1) play audiometry in 6 cases; (2) re-test of standard pure tone audiometry in 4 cases and (3) random presentation of test sounds in the pure tone audiometry in 1. In 11 out of the 14 cases, nonorganic hearing loss was finally denied by utilizing these tests. It was considered that these 11 children merely could not understand the instructions given them during the previous test. Therefore, prior to ABR test, other hearing tests such as play audiometry, etc., should be given to those children suspected of nonorganic hearing loss to confirm their actual hearing acuity.
We stress that the diagnosis of nonorganic hearing loss should be made only after the hearing tests mentioned above were carefully used.
