This needs to be thought about and understood beyond hearing sensitivity, and as a family you might benefit from therapy to address what sounds like a very difficult set-up.

This ensures that measurements on impulsive noise take proper account of our reduced hearing sensitivity to short bursts.

Earlier reports that their hearing sensitivity varied with the season, have been shown to be an artefact of the seasonally varying sensitivity to anesthetics.

Individuals with amblyaudia have normal hearing sensitivity (in other words they hear soft sounds) but have difficulty hearing in noisy environments like restaurants or classrooms.

Recently, it was found that midshipman fish can decrease their own hearing sensitivity by stiffening their inner ear hair cells while they are vibrating their calling muscles.