Tinnitus Management
■ There is considerable variability across patients in regard to their tinnitus and their ability to cope with its psychosocial consequences. Accordingly, the rehabilitative management of patients with tinnitus varies…
Incorporating Communication Partners Into the Audiologic Rehabilitation Process
& van Heuvelen, 1996). Involving others in the care and treatment necessitates rethinking the manner in which audiology services are provided. Traditional medical or biomedical models of treatment imply that…
Peer Support/Consumer Perspective
during the following week and was asked to report back on the results at the next session. We discovered that most of the problems or concerns raised were commonly experienced…
Biopsychosocial Approaches to Audiologic Counseling Patient-, Person-, Family-, and Relationship-Centered Care
means to live with hearing impairment. The need for this paradigm shift has been echoed repeatedly in audiology (Erdman, 1993a, 2009a; Erdman, Wark, & Montano, 1994; Gagné, 1998; Hickson, 2012;…
The International Classification of Functioning: Implications and Applications to Audiologic Rehabilitation
namely, duration, intensity, and frequency. There exist models of communication that describe and explain the rules that people intuitively use when they interact with one another. Theories, models, and frameworks…
One-to-One Speech Communication Training for Adults With Cochlear Implants
and other videos, which, they reported, were of considerable help. Finally, almost half (33) reported they had received no training at all. Several of the respondents expressed concern that they…
Advanced Practices: Assistive Technology in the Age of Smartphones and Tablets
scale, the possible situations where hearing assistance is needed may be determined. The results of the latest MarkeTrak IX survey showed an increased satisfaction with hearing aids (from 74% to…
Audiologic Assessment for Implantable Technologies
2017) argue that the currently applied criteria for CI result in underreferral of persons who could potentially benefit, and that “traditional” CI candidates are underreferred, as are persons who meet…
Auditory and Cognitive Processing in Audiologic Rehabilitation
of health care for older adults with comorbidities, and advancing the shift in AR from treating hearing impairment to promoting health and improving quality of life for listeners and their…
Group Audiologic Rehabilitation for Adults: Current Practice and Future Directions
in a group setting over at least a few sessions and are known collectively as Group Audiologic Rehabilitation (GAR). Boothroyd (2007) described AR as a holistic approach promoting the “reduction…
