Hearing Testing

For the past three days, the main project that Jennifer and I have been doing is testing the hearing of all the students at Nueva Vida. To make this project quick and efficient (there are over 100 enrolled students at Nueva Vida), Jennifer and I came up with a rather efficient system that gets each student in and out of the testing room within around 5-7 minutes. While Jennifer is explaining the test to the child and making sure they understand the directions (she is fluent in Spanish), I set up the audiometer for the next test and get the paperwork ready to record the data. I then test the child and record the data. While I am testing the child's hearing, Jennifer analyzes the results of the data coming from the previous test. Since I just had my audiology exam last week, it has been really fun being able to apply what I have learned in a real-life setting. So far, I have tested around 70 children and have about one more day of hearing screening left!

This is Griselda. She might not have been the most cooperative or testable client we had but she sure is cute!!

Jennifer and Griselda

This is the test result of a student named Ronald. He grew up blind and deaf. According to the faculty at Nueva Vida, he was miraculously healed by God when he was 2 years old. Unfortunately, after the miracle, he never stepped foot into a school until much later in life and has some major language and learning delays. I had the privilege of testing his hearing - the numbers written in the column are the decibals that he can hear the various frequencies at. Normal decibal levels for hearing range from -10-15 dB. As you can see, his hearing is beautifully within the range of normal hearing.  Knowing that he was once deaf and personally being able to test him and get results that are completely normal was just...awesome. Praise God!