Current Trends In Audiology

Download or read book Current Trends in Audiology written by Herbert J. Oyer and published by S Karger Ag. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines the range of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches that are being used today by clinicians working with hearing-impaired individuals. It begins with a discussion on hearing and its relationship to the learning of speech and language. Contributors also look at the importance of otoacoustic emissions as a diagnostic indicant in the newborn. Several outstanding accounts are given by surgeons of the successful use of cochlear and brainstem implants in children. The special requirements and unique problems of the elderly are also presented. The final contribution looks to the future of hearing aids with the many new and exciting developments that lie ahead. Audiologists, phoniatrists, otolaryngologists, speech and language pathologists, logopaedists, educators of the deaf and special education teachers will find much to interest them in this publication.