Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT™)
Help your clients hear better in noise
Conversations made clearer
Do your clients often complain they cannot hear and understand what people are saying in noisy environments – even with their hearing aids on?
ACT is a revolutionary test that quickly provides you with insights into your client’s hearing ability in noise. By performing ACT in your clients, you will be in a much better position to help them perform well in noisy environments.
Changing the world of hearing aid fitting
ACT addresses the number one complaint from people with hearing loss: hearing speech in noisy situations. With ACT, you can measure the quality of hearing and not just the level of hearing. By knowing the quality of hearing, you can confidently personalize the hearing aid fitting.
Fast and easy
ACT only takes an average of 2 minutes and is easy to perform. If you know how to perform an audiogram, you can easily perform ACT.
Suitable for all clients
ACT is a language-independent test, allowing you to achieve optimal results regardless of your client’s native language or dialect.
Personalized hearing care
Use the outcome of the test - the ACT value - to support the fitting of advanced adaptive features in any hearing aid.
Hearing care made personalized
ACT is a truly personalized test and applies your client’s pure tone audiogram to ensure audibility. Two people may have identical audiograms, but completely different ACT values. The ACT value predicts aided speech-in-noise performance. You are therefore in a much better position to make informed decisions on advanced hearing aid features and manage your client’s expectations.
Easy to implement in your clinical flow
Using the same setup as for audiometry, you can perform the ACT test right after the audiogram.
Audiometry
ACT™
Supplement measures
Fitting
"Did you know that 86% of hearing aid users complain they have trouble hearing conversations in noisy places?"1
1Manchaiah, V., Picou, E. M., Bailey, A., & Rodrigo, H. (2021). Consumer ratings of the most desirable hearing aid attributes. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 32(8), 537–546.
Beck, D. L., Ng, E., Jensen, J. J. (2019). A scoping review 2019: OpenSound navigator. The Hearing Review 26(2), 28–31
Research made into patient care
ACT is an evidence-based test invented by the Interacoustics Research Unit (IRU).
It is based on years of research with leading scientists and universities around the world.
Baseline for better first fit
Learn more about how you can use the result of your ACT test to help your client hear better in noise.
What do clinicians think about the ACT test?
A study carried out in real-world clinical settings in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Portugal demonstrates the feasibility of ACT. Learn why 9 out of 10 would recommend ACT to other clinicians in this whitepaper.
Perform ACT with the following solutions
ACT is available by default for new purchases of Affinity Compact, Callisto™, or Equinox Evo. For existing Affinity Compact and Callisto users, you will need an ACT license.
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