About this ebook
The text is separated into three sections for the most comprehensive coverage of each topic: Part 1 describes the components of an aural rehabilitation plan, Part 2 concerns adults and their family members, and Part 3 concerns children and their parents. Important topics throughout include patient-centered services, counseling, diagnostics, selection and fitting of listening devices, conversational fluency and communication strategies training, auditory training, speechreading, language and speech acquisition, and literacy.
New to the Sixth Edition:
* Reorganization of chapters combine shared themes and streamline learning:
* Audiological Examination and Listening Devices chapters have been combined into Chapter 2
* Assessing Conversational Fluency and Communication chapters are now combined into Chapter 6
New chapters on:
* Auditory training for children, with detailed guidance for developing training objectives and activities (Chapter 13)
* Language development and language therapy (Chapter 14)
* Speech and literacy acquisition, along with practical examples of lessons (Chapter 15)
* Inclusion or expansion of special topics, including auditory processing disorder, hidden hearing loss, unilateral hearing loss, and cultural competency
* Improved and expanded number of figures that illustrate and illuminate key concepts and ideas
Key Features:
* Focus on evidence-based approaches to aural rehabilitation
* Written in an engaging and clear style
* Chapters begin with Chapter Outlines and end with Key Chapter Points and Terms and Concepts to Remember
* Case studies in each chapter
* Numerous illustrations, tables, sidebars, and text boxes enrich the presentation of concepts
* Bolded key terms throughout with definitions in the margins and a comprehensive glossary make for easy review
* Chapter Key Resources and Appendices provide tools that can be used in clinical practice
Disclaimer: Please note that ancillary content (such as documents, audio, and video, etc.) may not be included as published in the original print version of this book.
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About the author
Nancy Tye-Murray, PhD, is a Professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is Principal Investigator of grants from the National Institutes of Health, which provide support for her research in audiovisual speech perception and auditory training. She is also the CEO of an Internet-based hearing health company, Amptify (www.amptify.com), which provides a hearing health care digital therapeutic and other services that audiologists can use to provide aural rehabilitation to their patients. Dr. Tye-Murray is the past president of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology, former Hearing Editor for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, and former Director of Research at the Central Institute for the Deaf.
