Modern Hearing Aids: Verification, Outcome Measures, and Follow-Up

Ruth Bentler, H Gustav Mueller, and Todd A. Ricketts

Details: 748 pages, B&W, Hardcover, 8.5" x 11"

ISBN13: 978-1-59756-482-3

Release Date: 20/02/2016

 Modern Hearing Aids: Verification, Outcome Measures, and Follow-Up focuses on the selection and fitting of hearing aids, and the outcome procedures and measures that follow. The world renowned authors provide guidance for selecting prescriptive fitting approaches, and detailed protocols for the use of behavioral measures and real-ear speech mapping to verify the fitting, and assess special hearing aid features. Extensive discussion is included regarding the techniques, procedures and test protocols for probe-microphone measures. The authors have included numerous post-fitting tests that can be conducted along with step-by-step protocols for their administration and scoring. Follow-up care, and auditory training options also are reviewed.

Key Features

• Included throughout the texts are short paragraphs identified as "Technical Tips," "Key Concepts," "Things to Remember," "Points to Ponder," and "Soapbox."
• Interesting tidbits of information not quite relevant enough to include in the chapters, but yet too good to toss aside, are featured in the back of the book as "Endnotes."
• Infused with humour!
• Written in an accessible and easy-to-ready style to be welcoming to university faculty and their students by including not just reference information, but tools supported by research and clinical experience, presented in a way that was accessible to clinical students with little experience in the field.
• Contains enough depth that even the serious hearing aid researcher will find many important pearls.