Knowledge Center
Audiology
Comprehensive hearing evaluations, hearing aid fitting and maintenance, and rehabilitation for cochlear implant users — for all ages.
Protecting Your Hearing in Everyday Life
General, practical ways to reduce everyday noise exposure — at home, at work, and during leisure.
What to Expect During a Hearing Assessment
A general overview of how a hearing assessment usually proceeds, so the process feels less unfamiliar before your visit.
Everyday Care for Your Hearing Aids
Simple, general habits that help keep hearing aids working well between professional check-ups.
Hearing Loss: Types, Causes, Signs and What to Do Next
A clear guide to the main types of hearing loss, common causes, early signs and why a professional hearing assessment is the best next step.
Do People Seem to Mumble? Early Signs of Hearing Loss in Adults
Asking people to repeat, a loud TV, struggling in noisy places: everyday signs that it may be time for a hearing assessment.
Sudden Hearing Loss in One Ear: Why It Needs Urgent Medical Attention
Unexplained hearing loss that comes on suddenly is treated as a medical emergency. What it can feel like and what to do straight away.
Ear Wax and Hearing: When a Blocked Ear Affects Your Hearing
Ear wax is normal and protective, but a build-up can muffle hearing. Safe habits, what to avoid, and when to have your ears checked.
Headphones and Earbuds: How to Listen Safely
Practical safe-listening habits for headphones and earbuds, based on WHO guidance on volume, listening time and breaks.
Hearing Tests Explained: The Main Types and What Each One Shows
Pure-tone, speech and middle-ear tests explained in plain language, so you know what a hearing assessment measures and why.
How to Read Your Audiogram: A Plain-Language Guide
What the lines, symbols and zones on an audiogram mean, and the questions to ask your audiologist about your hearing test results.
Online Hearing Checks vs a Clinical Hearing Assessment: What Is the Difference?
Online hearing checks can be a useful first signal, but they cannot replace a calibrated clinical assessment. When each one makes sense.
Booking a Hearing Test in Muscat: What to Know Before Your Visit
How to book a hearing assessment at Jordan Hearing & Speech in Bousher, Muscat, what to bring, and what usually happens on the day.
Tinnitus (Ringing in the Ears): Causes, When to Worry and How It Is Assessed
What tinnitus is, common triggers, symptoms that need prompt medical attention, and what a tinnitus assessment involves.
Tinnitus at Night: Practical Ways to Sleep Better
Tinnitus often feels louder in a quiet bedroom. Practical, gentle ways to make nights easier, and when sleep problems with tinnitus need a professional.
Children's Hearing: From Newborn Screening to School Age
A parent's guide to children's hearing: newborn screening, how hearing is checked at each stage, common causes of problems, and where to get support.
Signs a Child May Not Be Hearing Well, by Age
What hearing difficulty can look like in babies, toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children, and when to arrange a hearing test.
Glue Ear (Fluid Behind the Eardrum) and Your Child's Hearing
Glue ear is fluid behind the eardrum that can muffle a child's hearing. What it is, the signs to look for, and how hearing is checked and followed up.
How to Help a Parent Who Will Not Admit to Hearing Loss
Practical, respectful ways to talk to a parent who may have hearing loss but does not want to admit it, and how to make the first hearing test easier.
Communication Tips for Talking With Someone Who Has Hearing Loss
Simple ways to make conversations easier for someone with hearing loss: face them, speak clearly rather than louder, cut background noise and check understanding.
Life After Cochlear Implant Activation: Follow-Up and Mapping Explained
What happens after a cochlear implant is switched on: mapping, follow-up visits, listening practice, and how families can support progress.
What Is Auditory Rehabilitation? Learning to Listen With New Hearing Technology
Auditory rehabilitation helps children and adults learn to make the most of hearing aids or cochlear implants. What it involves and how families can help.
Hearing Aids: A Complete Guide to How They Work and Getting Started
How hearing aids work, the main styles, who they can help, and the steps from hearing test to fitting and follow-up, with realistic expectations.
Do I Need a Hearing Aid? Signs, Test Results and Next Steps
Signs that hearing aids may help, what your hearing test results mean for the decision, and the practical next steps if hearing aids are recommended.
Hearing Aid Styles Compared: RIC, BTE, ITE and CIC
RIC, BTE, ITE and CIC hearing aids differ in where they sit, how visible they are and how easy they are to handle. Here is how the main styles compare.