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

Description

We proudly present the new third edition of Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation: Children, Adults, and Their Family Members, one of our most successful and widely used texts for audiologists and speech-language pathologists. A readable, comprehensive resource, it covers topics such as identification and diagnosis of hearing and other hearing-related communication challenges, patient and family counseling, selection and fitting of listening devices, communication training, literacy promotion, and much more. General information is provided in the early sections, while the latter half of the book focuses on adult and child populations, respectively. New to this edition is a chapter devoted to infants and toddlers who have hearing loss and an expanded consideration of informational counseling

New to this Edition

• New sidebars throughout the text provide thought-provoking quotes, related, important information, definitions of key terms, and internet resources
• Additional end-of-chapter activities provide increased opportunity for review and independent study

Features

• Case studies are included in each chapter, highlighting key concepts in real-world clinical applications
• New Electronic Classroom Manager for instructors provides excellent support tools including PowerPoint© presentations, a computerized test bank, additional case studies and teaching tips, and an image library.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

PART 1: SPEECH RECOGNITION AND PERSONS WHO HAVE HEARING LOSS
Chapter 2: Assessing Hearing Acuity and Speech Recognition
Chapter 3: Listening Devices and Related Technology
Chapter 4: Auditory Training
Chapter 5: Speechreading
Chapter 6: Speechreading Training

PART II: CONVERSATION AND COMMUNICATION BEHAVIORS
Chapter 7: Communication Strategies and Conversational Styles
Chapter 8: Assessment of Conversational Fluency and Communication Difficulties
Chapter 9: Communication Strategies Training
Chapter 10: Counseling, Psychosocial Support, and Assertiveness Training

PART III: AURAL REHABILITATION FOR ADULTS
Chapter 11: Adults Who Have Hearing Loss
Chapter 12: Aural Rehabilitation Plans for Adults
Chapter 13: Aural Rehabilitation Plans for Older Adults
PART IV: AURAL (RE)HABILITATION FOR CHILDREN

Chapter 14: Infants and Toddlers Who Have Hearing Loss
Chapter 15: School-Age Children Who Have Hearing Loss

About the Author

Nancy Tye-Murray is a research professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and the principal investigator of two RO1 grants from the National Institutes of Health and co-principal investigator of a third. Her research interests include the effects of aging on speech perception, conversational fluency, the efficacy of aural rehabilitation, and the speech production and perception of children who have hearing loss. Tye-Murray founded and ran both the aural rehabilitation program for adult cochlear implant users and the children's speech and language project at the University of Iowa Hospitals. At Central Institute for the Deaf, she taught the graduate level aural rehabilitation class at Washington University, helped assess the psychosocial therapy program for adult cochlear implant users, and for six years served as department head of the research program, which was composed of the Center for the Biology of Hearing and Deafness and the Center of Childhood Deafness and Adult Aural Rehabilitation. She has written six books, including, Let's Converse! A How-To Guide to Expand the Conversational Skills of Children and Teenagers Who Have Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants and Children: A Handbook for Parents, Teachers, and Speech and Hearing Professionals (Alexander Graham Bell Association Publishing). Tye-Murray has published extensively in such peer-reviewed journals as Ear and Hearing, Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Journal of the Academy of American Audiology. She developed the CD-ROM aural rehabilitation series Conversation Made Easy: Speechreading and Communication Training (published by Central Institute for the Deaf). She is the former president of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology and the former chief editor of Volta Review.