Strategies for Selecting and Verifying Hearing Aid Fittings
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Strategies for Selecting and Verifying Hearing Aid Fittings

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Strategies for Selecting and Verifying Hearing Aid Fittings

About this book

This current and expanded edition of a bestselling text is divided into four sections, organized to follow the sequence in which decisions are made regarding hearing aid fittings, and featuring new chapters on middle ear implants, hearing aid counseling, and infection control. Other chapters have been revised to reflect the latest developments in the field, such as: improving speech recognition with directional microphones; changing standards for measuring real-ear performance; and new prescriptive procedures for severe hearing loss.

The text features contributions from internationally renowned experts in the field who share their extensive knowledge and clinical experience. It covers the six most common forms of hearing loss practitioners will encounter in their own practice—noise-induced, symmetrical, asymmetrical, unilateral, conductive, and severe hearing loss—with instructions on applying the newest technology to each hearing impaired group.

Key features:

  • Addresses the six most common types of hearing loss that comprise 90-95% of the situations audiologists encounter daily
  • Organized to follow the decision-making progress in selecting and verifying hearing aid fittings
  • Fully updated with state-of-the-art technology on implantable hearing aids, directional microphones, and more
  • A valuable glossary of terms at the end of the text—helpful for students and specialists alike

Together with its updated companion text, Hearing Aids: Standards, Options, and Limitations, this book forms the basis of a complete reference library on selecting, ordering, measuring, and verifying hearing aid fittings and performance.

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Information

Publisher
Thieme
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781604066135
Edition
2
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Audiology & Speech Pathology

Table of contents

  1. Strategies for Selecting and Verifying Hearing Aid Fittings
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Contributors
  7. 1. Overview and Rationale for Prescriptive Formulas for Linear and Nonlinear Hearing Aids
  8. 2. Selection, Verification, and Validation of Maximum Output
  9. 3. Real-Ear Measures
  10. 4. Paired Comparisons as a Fine-Tuning Tool in Hearing Aid Fittings
  11. 5. Assessing Hearing Aid Fittings: An Outcome Measures Battery Approach
  12. 6. Fitting Strategies for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
  13. 7. Fitting Strategies for Patients with Symmetrical Hearing Loss
  14. 8. Fitting Binaural Amplification to Asymmetrical Hearing Loss
  15. 9. Fitting Strategies for Patients with Unilateral Hearing Loss
  16. 10. Fitting Strategies for Patients with Conductive or Mixed Hearing Loss
  17. 11. Middle Ear Implants: An Alternative to Conventional Amplification
  18. 12. Hearing Rehabilitation for Individuals with Severe and Profound Hearing Impairment: Hearing Aids, Cochlear Implants, and Counseling
  19. 13. Hearing Aid Orientation and Counseling
  20. 14. Hearing Aid Related Infection Control
  21. Index