Adult Audiologic Rehabilitation

Adult Audiologic Rehabilitation, Third Edition is an advanced textbook for doctoral level audiology students that focuses solely on adults with a completely international perspective. It is the only advanced text to meet the need for the high level of preparation required for doctoral level training. It is also an essential resource for practicing clinicians looking for a complete reference on the latest techniques and technologies.

With ever changing technology and new methodologies in client care, the third edition of Adult Audiologic Rehabilitation is a critical resource to audiology education. The book covers definitions of audiologic rehabilitation, an overview of the area, psychosocial impact of hearing loss, assessment strategies, current technologies, treatment methodologies, e-technologies, research needs, and special issues in audiologic rehabilitation. It has been deliberately structured to move the reader from introduction, to specific details of the specialty of audiologic rehabilitation, to providing insights into characteristics of this patient population, and thence to a framework for assessment and treatment of the impact of hearing loss.

Thoroughly updated, this edition includes eight new chapters and revisions to nineteen chapters that include updated content, references, figures and tables. New topics include:

• Hearing Health-Seeking Behavior
• Social Factors in Hearing Aids
• Improving Patient Adherence
• Multimedia Educational Resources
• Family-Centered Care
• Patient Narratives in Audiology
• E-health and M-health for Audiologic Rehabilitation
• Community Outreach

Customizable PowerPoint lecture slides for instructors are accessible on a PluralPlus companion website. 

This edition welcomes contributions from new authors including: Abbey L. Berg, Melanie Ferguson, Stefan Launer, Alessia Paglialonga, Gabrielle Saunders, Nerina Scarinci, Gurjit Singh, Nancy Tye- Murray, Barbra Timmer, Emilie Zaslow, and a foreword by Arthur Boothroyd.

Joseph J. Montano, EdD, is a Professor of Audiology in Clinical Otolaryngology and Director of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital. He received his EdD in Audiology from Teacher's College Columbia University and his MA degree from New York University, and is certified in Audiology (CCC-A) through the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). He is a Past-President of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Ida Institute, Hearing Rehabilitation Foundation (HRF) and Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers (HEAR).

Prior to Weill Cornell, Dr. Montano was an Associate Professor at Long Island University/C.W. Post and a previous Director of the Department of Communication Disorders at Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital. Dr. Montano's clinical expertise is in the area of audiologic rehabilitation with particular interest in adjustment to adult onset hearing loss, hearing assistive technology systems and hearing aids.

Jaclyn B. Spitzer, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Audiology and Speech Pathology in Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York. She received her Masters of Audiology from Teachers College and her PhD from Columbia University.

Dr. Spitzer has authored over ninety articles in scientific journals, with a variety of interests, including diagnostic methods of central auditory processing and test development.  Since the 1980s, she has written extensively about the rehabilitative impact of bone anchored and cochlear implants.