How to perform ACT™ on Affinity Compact (video)

ACT™ Support

It's easy and only takes approximately 2 minutes to perform the Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT) test on Affinity Compact. Learn how to instruct your patient, how to do the actual test and how to use the ACT value for tailoring your client's hearing aid fitting.

You can read the full transcript below.

The Audible Contrast Threshold test, also known as ‘ACT’, allows you to assess how well someone can hear in background noise. It does this by using a special signal that is non-language specific. ACT makes full use of the pure tone audiogram. Making this an above threshold test.

To perform ACT, you will need an audiometer with the ACT license, headphones or insert ear phones, a patient response button, and a completed binaural audiogram with thresholds stored for at least the following frequencies:

Now we have everything we need; we can go ahead and perform ACT.

From the audiogram screen within the Affinity Suite, go to ‘Menu’, select ‘Tests’, and then click on ‘ACT’.

An instruction box will automatically appear.

Instruct your client on what they need to do, and make sure they understand to press every time they hear the special signal, which sounds like a siren.