Hearing Aids

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Thieme, May 23, 2012 - Medical - 631 pages

Key Features:

  • Completely revised to reflect the research and technological advances of the last decade
  • New chapters on directional microphones and the latest digital signal processing strategies
  • Extensive coverage of all aspects of open-canal, thin-tube hearing aids
  • Practical tips, tables, and procedures designed to be pinned on the walls of clinics
  • Each cross-referenced chapter builds on the previous chapters

Hearing Aids, Second Edition, is a book within a book:

  • Each chapter has a one-page synopsis that captures the key concepts of each topic
  • The material that students most need is contained in marked paragraphs that flow after each other to form a coherent thin book inside the larger book
  • Intervening additional paragraphs add satisfying depth

Written, comprehensively referenced, and extensively reviewed by leaders in the field, this book is ideal as a core graduate text as well as a standard reference for clinicians.

 

Contents

INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS
1
HEARING AID COMPONENTS
20
HEARING AID SYSTEMS
50
ELECTROACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE AND MEASUREMENT
81
HEARING AID EARMOLDS EARSHELLS AND COUPLING SYSTEMS
127
COMPRESSION SYSTEMS IN HEARING AIDS
170
DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONES AND ARRAYS
198
ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING SCHEMES
226
SELECTING ADJUSTING AND VERIFYING HEARING AIDS
336
PROBLEM SOLVING AND FINETUNING
354
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING FOR HEARING AID WEARERS
374
ASSESSING THE OUTCOMES OF HEARING REHABILITATION
403
BINAURAL AND BILATERAL CONSIDERATIONS IN HEARING AID FITTING
430
SPECIAL HEARING AID ISSUES FOR CHILDREN
469
CROS BONECONDUCTION AND IMPLANTED HEARING AIDS
513
REFERENCES
537

ASSESSING CANDIDACY FOR HEARING AIDS
255
PRESCRIBING HEARING AID AMPLIFICATION
286
INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS
597
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