Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation: Children, Adults, and Their Family Members

Thoroughly updated with three new chapters, Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation: Children, Adults, and Their Family Members, Sixth Edition introduces the fundamentals of audiologic rehabilitation and hearing-related speech-language pathology in an easy-to-read, concise resource for the field of communication sciences and disorders. The text offers creative coverage of theory, clinical practice, and research-based approaches for identifying, diagnosing, and treating hearing-related communication disorders in children and adults. The book includes case studies, and general demographic, medical, and pop-cultural trends are considered in parallel with corresponding developments in aural rehabilitation.
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