Author: Andy Vonlanthen Publisher: Singular ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Hearing Instrument Technology for the Hearing Healthcare Professional, 2E brings together modern material for the highly specialized are of hearing instrument acousticians in hearing instrument technology. Beginning with an overview of hearing instrument technology from the beginning to the "digital" era, the text covers hearing instrument types and statistics on these instruments, hearing instrument measurements, transducers, acoustic modifications, hearing instrument functions, accessories, and troubleshooting, digital hearing instruments, and audiological background.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309439264 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 325
Book Description
The loss of hearing - be it gradual or acute, mild or severe, present since birth or acquired in older age - can have significant effects on one's communication abilities, quality of life, social participation, and health. Despite this, many people with hearing loss do not seek or receive hearing health care. The reasons are numerous, complex, and often interconnected. For some, hearing health care is not affordable. For others, the appropriate services are difficult to access, or individuals do not know how or where to access them. Others may not want to deal with the stigma that they and society may associate with needing hearing health care and obtaining that care. Still others do not recognize they need hearing health care, as hearing loss is an invisible health condition that often worsens gradually over time. In the United States, an estimated 30 million individuals (12.7 percent of Americans ages 12 years or older) have hearing loss. Globally, hearing loss has been identified as the fifth leading cause of years lived with disability. Successful hearing health care enables individuals with hearing loss to have the freedom to communicate in their environments in ways that are culturally appropriate and that preserve their dignity and function. Hearing Health Care for Adults focuses on improving the accessibility and affordability of hearing health care for adults of all ages. This study examines the hearing health care system, with a focus on non-surgical technologies and services, and offers recommendations for improving access to, the affordability of, and the quality of hearing health care for adults of all ages.
Author: Robert E. Sandlin Publisher: Singular ISBN: 9781565939974 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 766
Book Description
This comprehensive text provides the hearing health professional with a broad overview of the advances in technology and clinical insights relating to hearing aid devices and those who use them. Emphasis is given to the most current advances in clinical assessment and hearing instrument technology. In addition to clinical assessment techniques, this text offers detailed analysis of the application of digital signal processing. Psychology is included to help professionals meet clients' emotional as well as acoustic needs. This is a valuable book for academic and clinical professionals involved in the selection and fitting of hearing aid devices for the acoustically impaired
Author: Robert E. Sandlin Publisher: Allyn & Bacon ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
Provides the hearing health professional with useful information about the development and application of digital technology applied to hearing aid devices. Chapters discuss different systems available such as ReSound, Widex Multiprogrammable, PMC, Triton, PRIZM, and 3M. The application of digital t
Author: Gyl A. Kasewurm Publisher: Plural Publishing ISBN: 163550208X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 153
Book Description
Dr. Gyl's Guide to a Successful Hearing Care Practice is a must-have resource for private practice owners in hearing healthcare. Author Gyl Kasewurm, AuD, known in the audiology field as "Dr. Gyl", has owned and operated a practice for thirty-five years, generating ten times the annual revenue of a typical practice, despite being in a town of only 12,000 people. Readers will benefit from her unique expertise and insight whether they are just starting a new practice or current practice owners looking to implement new strategies to take their business to the next level. While most private practice owners spend their time working in their businesses, Dr. Gyl highlights the importance of working on their businesses. The book is full of simple and hands-on tips for a more productive and profitable business. The book covers starting a practice, monitoring the health of the business, innovative marketing strategies, patient retention efforts, financials, Dr. Gyl's personal "Tips for Success", and more!
Author: Brian Taylor Publisher: Plural Publishing ISBN: 1635502128 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 582
Book Description
The third edition of Fitting and Dispensing Hearing Aids provides clinical audiologists, hearing instrument specialists, and graduate students with the latest in practical information reflecting current clinical practice standards. Authored by two of the industry's leading authorities on adult amplification and audiology practice management, the book is sequenced to match the patient's journey through a clinical practice. Its 12 chapters are packed with the latest commercial innovations in hearing aids, basic hearing assessment procedures, patient-related outcome measures, and innovative counseling techniques. Experienced clinicians will also find the updated chapters on help-seeking behavior and hearing aid features and benefits to be valuable to their continued professional development. Hearing aid dispensing always has been a technology-driven profession, heavily dependent on the expertise, thoughtfulness, and good judgment of the licensed professional. Over the past few years, even as technology has continued to evolve at breakneck speed, these skills have become more relevant than ever in the delivery of high-quality patient care, especially to the rapidly aging Baby Boomer population. This bestselling text is required reading for those studying to obtain their hearing aid dispensing license or audiology or speech pathology students looking for the latest in dispensing and fitting hearing aids in a succinct, entertaining format. Because each chapter is written around a specific theme–like wine tasting, travel, baseball, country music, and more–this succinct and entertaining textbook is actually fun to read! New to the Third Edition: * The chapters devoted to fitting modern hearing aids have been thoroughly updated * Thoroughly updated chapter on connectivity * Material on over-the-counter hearing aids and automated real ear measures * Information on newer outcome measures and updated approaches to counseling patients * Information on hearables, self-fitting hearing aids, over-the-counter hearing aids, and personal sound amplification products (PSAPs) * Complete review of all special features with case study examples * Revised appendix with several up-to-date industry resources
Author: Marshall Chasin Publisher: Plural Publishing ISBN: 1635503965 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 169
Book Description
Music and Hearing Aids: A Clinical Approach is written for hearing health care professionals working with hard-of-hearing musicians and music lovers. This highly relevant book breaks down the research for how music can, and should, be processed through modern hearing aids and offers the busy audiologist clinically based strategies to optimize the sound of amplified music for hard-of-hearing people. With an easy-to-read style, this text meets audiologists where they are by providing a primer on wavelength acoustics, as well as walking the reader through the basics of music needed to understand the research available. in addition, this professional resource highlights gaps in the research and technology, offering a clear picture of the room for growth available in the field. Key Features * A wide range of information covered in a concise text with 26 figures and 7 tables * Statements throughout the book of where more work still needs to be done with 12 mini-experiments that could form the basis of student research projects * A balanced discussion of clinical practice and research * A chapter on "A return to older technology?” that includes input from many musicians who wear hearing aids * 15 audio files that serve to drive home the points presented in the text
Author: Publisher: ScholarlyEditions ISBN: 1481659162 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 199
Book Description
Hearing Loss: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Diagnosis and Screening. The editors have built Hearing Loss: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Diagnosis and Screening in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Hearing Loss: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
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