The Audiometer and Test Environment
4 The Audiometer and Test Environment The Audiometer The principal tool used in the process of evaluating a patient’s auditory functioning is the audiometer. Fundamentally, the audiometer is nothing more…
Audiological Management II
16 Audiological Management II The previous chapter covered the basic concepts and technical considerations involved with hearing aids. We will now continue with our coverage of audiological management with a…
Clinical Masking
9 Clinical Masking It seems reasonable to assume that sounds presented to the right ear are heard by the right ear, and that sounds presented to the left ear are…
Audiological Screening
13 Audiological Screening Screening Principles Screening programs are used to identify those individuals who have a particular disorder or group of disorders. Screening is warranted when a disorder has appreciable…
Audiological Management I
15 Audiological Management I In the grand sense, the terms audiological (re)habilitation and aural (re)habilitation refer to a wide range of modalities employed by the audiologist to maximize the hearing-impaired…
Nonorganic Hearing Loss
14 Nonorganic Hearing Loss Routine audiological tests rely on the patient’s behavioral responses to the stimuli presented to her. If she can hear a tone as soft as 0 dB…
Assessment of Infants and Children
12 Assessment of Infants and Children This chapter is concerned with the audiological evaluation of children. Here, we are concerned with audiological procedures that have been modified or specially developed…
