Hearing Aids

Description

Comprehensive resource about hearing aids — how to prescribe, select, fit, measure, and evaluate hearing aids.

Key Features:

• A new chapter on directional microphones and the growing range of digital signal processing strategies
• Coverage of a major change in open fittings due to the wide availability of effective feedback cancellation and thin-tube canal fittings for many patients
• Practical tips, tables, and procedures designed to be pinned on the walls of clinics
• Synopses, key paragraphs, and detailed materials help readers easily progress from basic to highly sophisticated concepts
• Each cross-referenced chapter builds on the previous chapters
• Innovative research results and procedures give readers an important professional edge
• Each chapter has a one-page synopsis that captures the key concepts of each topic
• The material that students most need is contained in marked paragraphs that flow after each other to form a coherent thin book inside the larger book
• Intervening additional paragraphs add satisfying depth

Sales Hooks

• Dr. Dillon is widely known and his name helps sell the book
• A book-within-a-book-within-a-book format: Each chapter has a one-page synopsis, Key material for students is in marked paragraphs, Additional paragraphs add depth and detail
• Tips, tables, and procedures that can be pinned on the walls of clinics
• Can be used by professionals, as well as adopted in core audiology graduate courses
• Known in the industry as the “Blue Book”

New to the Second Edition:

• New chapter has been added on directional microphones and the growing range of digital signal processing strategies
• Discusses throughout the book the major change in open fittings due to the wide availability of effective feedback cancellation and thin-tube canal fittings for many clients