Personal Music Players & Hearing  6. Hearing damage diagnosis,
vulnerability & treatment    • 6.1 How is hearing damage
diagnosed?   • 6.2 Are certain individuals particularly
vulnerable to sound exposure?   • 6.3 How can sound-induced
hearing loss be treated?  6.1 How is hearing damage diagnosed?
The SCENIHR opinion states:  3.5.5.Clinical evaluation of noise
damage Hearing loss  NIHL refers mostly to deafness, the
inability to hear certain sounds, but this hearing loss is most
often associated with considerable difficulties in auditory
discrimination of simultaneous sounds, such as speech
understanding in a noisy environment, which affects notably
social interactions. In addition NIHL is often associated with
tinnitus which may also be very damaging to a person’s living,
and sometimes also with hypersensitivity to loud sounds. Overall
NIHL has a noxious socio-economic impact for both the affected
person and the society in which he lives. The noise-induced
auditory impairments are most often progressive and