Patent ID: 8571245

Claim:
A hearing assistance suitability determining device which determines a suitability of a subject for dichotic hearing assistance, said hearing assistance suitability determining device comprising: a hearing ability information obtaining unit configured to obtain hearing ability information indicating a hearing ability of the subject for frequencies; a hearing ability type determining unit configured to determine, among hearing ability types each of which is defined by a tendency in a change of the hearing ability with respect to the frequencies, a hearing ability type of the hearing ability indicated by the hearing ability information; and a suitability deciding unit configured to decide, with reference to a table, the suitability of the subject for the dichotic hearing assistance based on a suitability corresponding, in the table, to the hearing ability type determined by said hearing ability type determining unit, the table showing a correspondence relationship between each of the hearing ability types and one of suitabilities for dichotic hearing assistance, wherein one of the hearing ability types is a high-frequency sloping type in which a hearing ability decreases as a frequency becomes higher, and said suitability deciding unit is configured to decide that the suitability of the subject for the dichotic hearing assistance when the hearing ability type determined by said hearing ability type determining unit is the high-frequency sloping type is to be higher than the suitability when the hearing ability type determined by said hearing ability type determining unit is not the high-frequency sloping type.