Clinical audiology : an introduction / Brad A. Stach.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audiologic Referrals--Younger adults--Evaluative goals--Test strategies--Illustrative case--Older adults--Evaluative goals--Test strategies--Illustrative case--Pediatric Audiologic Referrals--Infant screening--Evaluative goals--Test strategies--illustrative case--Pediatric evaluation--Evaluative goals--Test strategies--Illustrative case--Auditory Processing Assessment--Evaluative goals--Test strategies--Illustrative case--Functional Hearing Loss--Indicators of Functional hearing loss--Nonaudiometric indicators--Audiometric indicators--Assessment of Functional Hearing loss--Strategies to detect exaggeration--Strategies to determine true thresholds--Illustrative case--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources--11. Communicating Audiometric Results:- Learning Objectives--Talking to patients--Goal of the encounter-- Information to convey--Matching patient and provider perspectives--Writing reports--Documenting and reporting--Report destination--Nature of the Referral--Information to convey--The report--The Audiogram and other forms--Supplemental material--Sample reporting strategy--Making referrals--Lines and ethics of referral--When to refer--Summary--Short Answer Questions--Discussion questions--Resources--12. Introduction to Audiologic Management:- Learning Objectives-- The first questions--The importance of asking why--Assessment of treatment candidacy--Audiologic assessment--Treatment assessment--The Audiologist\'s challenge--Amplification - Yes or No?--Amplification strategies-- Approaches to fitting hearing instruments--Approaches to defining success--Treatment planning--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources--13. The Audiologist\'s Treatment Tools: Hearing Instruments:- Learning Objectives--Hearing Instrument components--Microphone and other input technology--Amplifier--Receiver--Controls--Manual control--Programmable control--Electoacoustic characteristics--Frequency Gain Charachteristics--Input-Output characteristics--Linear Amplification--Nonlinear amplification--Output Limiting--Peak Clipping--Compression Limiting--Signal processing--Other processing features--Hearing Instrument systems--Conventional hearing aids--Behind-the-ear--In-the-ear--Style considerations--Hearing Assistive Technology--Assistive Listening devices--Other Assistive Technologies--Implantable Hearing Technology--Cochlear implants--Bone-anchored hearing aids--Middle-ear implants--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources--14. The Audiologic Treatment Process:- Learning objectives--Hearing aid selection and fitting--The prescription of gain--Hearing instrument selection--Hearing instrument fitting and verification--Ear impressions--Quality control--Fitting and verification--Orientation, counseling, and follow-up--Assessing outcomes--Post-fitting rehabilitation--Auditory training and speechreading--Educational Programming--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion Questions--Resources-- 15. Different Treatment Approaches For Different Populations:- Learning objectives--Adult populations--Adult sensorineural hearing loss--Treatment goals--treatment strategies--Illustrative case--Geriatric Sensorineural hearing loss--Treatment goals--Treatment strategies--Illustrative case--Pediatric Populations--Pediatric Sensorineural hearing loss--Treatment goals--Treatment strategies--Illustrative case--Auditory processing disorder--Treatment goals--Treatment strategies--Illustrative case--Other populations--Conductive hearing loss--Treatment goals--Treatment strategies--Illustrative case--Severe and profound sensorineural hearing loss--Treatment goals--Treatment strategies--Illustrative cases--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources.

1. The profession of audiology in the United States:- Learning objectives--What is an Audiologist?--What is an Audiologist\'s Role?--Identification--Assessment and diagnosis--Treatment--Education--Prevention--Research--Related activities--Scope of Practice--Where do audiologists Practice?--Private practice--Physician\'s Practices--Hospitals and medical centers--Hearing and speech clinics--Schools--Universities--Hearing instrument manufacturers--Industry--Relation to other professions--Otolaryngology--Other medical specialities--Speech-Language pathology--Nonaudiologist hearing aid dispensers--Other professionals--The Evolution of Audiology--The Professional heritage of audiology--From Academic discipline to health-care profession--From communication disorders to the hearing profession--From teacher training model of education to health-care model--From certification to licensure model--The clinical heritage of audiology--Audiology\'s beginnings ( before 1950 )--Audiology as an academic discipline (1950s and 1960s)--Audiology as a clinical profession (1970s and beyons)--Professional requirements--Becoming an audiologist--Academic and clinical requirements--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Information sources--Organizations--Resources--2.The nature of hearing:- Learning Objectives--The nature of sound--What is sound--Properties of sound--Intensity--Frequency--Phase--Spectrum--The Auditory system--Outer Ear--Middle Ear--Anatomy--Physiology--Inner ear--Anatomy--Physiology--Auditory Nervous System--The VIIIth cranial nerve--The central auditory nervous system--The vestibular system--Anatomy--Physiology--How we hear--Absolute sensitivity of hearing--The nature of hearing sensitivity--The Audiogram--Differential sensitivity--Properties of pitch and loudness--Measurement of sound--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussing questions--Resources -- 3. The nature of hearing loss:- Learning objectives--Types of hearing disorder--Hearing sensitivity loss--Conductive hearing loss--Mixed hearing loss--Suprathrehold hearing disorder--Retrocochlear hearing disorder--Auditory processing disorder--Functional hearing loss--Impact of hearing didorder--Patient factors--Degree and configuration of hearing sensitivity loss--Type of hearing loss--Conductive hearing loss--Sensorineural hearing loss--Retrocochlear hearing loss--Auditory processing disorder--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources -- 4. Causes of hearing disorder:- Learning objectives--Auditory pathology--Conductive hearing disorders--Congenital Outer- and Middle-ear anomalies--Impacted cerumen--Other outer-ear disorders--Otitis media with effusion--Complications of OME--Tympanic - Membrane Perforation--Cholesteatoma--Tympanosclerosis--Otosclerosis--Other middle -ear disorders--Sensory hearing disorders--Congenital and inherited sensory hearing disorders--Inner-ear anomalies--Teratogenic factors--Syndromic hereditary hearing disorder--Nonsyndromic hereditary hearing disorder--Acquired sensory hearing disorders--Perinatal factors--Noise-induced hearing loss--Trauma--Infections--Ototoxicity--Meniere\'s disease--Presbyacusis--Autoimmune Inner-ear disease--Cochlear otosclerosis--Idiopathic sudden Sensorineural hearing loss--Neural hearing disorders--Auditory neuropathy--VIIIth Nerve tumors and disorders--Brainstem disorders--Temporal-Lobe disorder--Other nervous system disorders--Vestibular disorders--Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo--Superior canal dehiscence--Vestibulotoxicity--Vestibular neuritis--Meniere\'s Disease--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources--Articles and books--Web sites--5. Introduction to Hearing Assessment:- Learning Objectives--The first question--Referral-source perspective--Importance of the

Case history--The Audiologist\'s challenges--Evaluating Outer- and Middle-Ear function--Estimating Hearing sensitivity--Determining Type of Hearing loss--Measuring Speech Recognition--Measuring Auditory Processing--Measuring the Impact of Hearing Loss--Screening hearing function--Newborn hearing screening--School-age screening--Workplace screening--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources--Articles and Books--Web sites--6. The Audiologist\'s Assessment Tools: Pure-Tone Audiometry:- Learning objectives--Equipment and Test environment--The audiometer--Transducers--Test environment--The Audiogram--Threshold of hearing sensitivity--The audiogram--Modes of testing--Audiometric symbols--Audiometric descriptions--Establishing the Pure-Tone Audiogram--Patient preparation--Audiometric test technique--Air conduction--Bone conduction--Masking--Air conduction masking--Bone-conduction masking--Masking strategies--The masking dilemma--Audiometry Unplugged:Tuning fork tests--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources--7. The Audiologist\'s Assessment Tools: Speech audiometry and other behavioral measures:- Learning objectives--Speech Audiometry--Uses of Speech audiometry--Speech thresholds--Pure-Tone cross-check--Speech recognition--Differential diagnosis--Auditory Processing--EstimatingCommunicative Function--Speech Audiometry Materials--Types of materials--Redundancy in hearing--Other considerations--Clinical applications of Speech Audiometry--Speech-recognition threshold--Speech Detection Threshold--Word recognition--Sensitized speech measures--Speech recognition and site of lesion--Predicting speech recognition--Other Behavioral Measures--Traditional Site-of-Lesion Measures--Masking level difference--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources--8. The Audiologist\'s Assessment Tools: Immittancee Measures:- Learning objectives--Immittance Audiometry--Instrumentation--Measurement Technique--Basic Immittance Measures--Tympanometry--Static Immittance--Acoustic Reflexes--Threshold Measures--Suprathreshold measures--Principles of Interpretation--Clinical applications--Middle-ear disorder--Principles of clinical application--Normal Middle-ear function--Increased mass--Increased stiffness--Excessive immittance--Tympanic-membrane perforation--Negative middle-ear pressure--Cochlear disorder--Retrocochlear disorder--Cochlear hearing loss--Afferent abnormality--Efferent abnormality--Central pathway abnormality--Summary--Short answer questions--Discussion questions--Resources--9. The Audiologist\'s Assessment Tools: Physiologic Measures:- Learning objectives--Auditory Evoked Potentials--Measurement techniques--Recording EEG activity--Signal averaging--The family of auditory evoked potentials--Electrocochleogram--Auditory brainstem response--Middle Latency response--Late latency response--Auditory steady-state response--Clinical applications--Prediction of hearing sensitivity--Infant hearing screening--Diagnostic applications--Surgical monitoring--Summary--Otoacoustic Emissions--Types of otoacoustic emissions--Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions--Evoked otoacoustic emissions--Relation to hearing sensitivity--Clinical applications--Infant screening--Pediatric assessment--Cochlear function monitoring--Diagnostic applications--Summary--Short Answer Questions--Discussion Questions--Resources--10. Different Assessment Approaches for Different Populations:- Learning objectives--Otologic referrals--Outer- and Middle-ear disorders--Evaluative goals--Test strategies--Illustrative cases--Cochlear disorder--Evaluative goals--Test strategies--Illustrative Cases--Retrocochlear disorder--Evaluative goals--Test strategies--Illustrative cases--Adult

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