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Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation: Children, Adults and Their Family Members – Sixth Edition

3 July 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
This book provides a plethora of information relating to aural rehabilitation. The author has taken a multi-faceted approach, combining firm evidence-based perspectives with an evaluation of the scientific foundations of current clinical practises. This book is mainly aimed at those...

The evolving role of OAEs in newborn hearing screening

1 May 2018 | | Audiology - Paediatric
An admission on emissions from James Hall! OAEs hold an established place in the screening of infants; Professor Hall introduces how OAEs established this position and the advances keeping the test relevant to today’s infant screening battery. Introduction Truthfully, when...

Audiology Answers for Otolaryngologists

31 October 2018 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, ENT, Otology
Audiology Answers for Otolaryngologists aims to provide a grounding in audiology for otolaryngology residents and other professionals allied to audiology, who would otherwise have limited exposure to clinical audiology. It is written by senior audiologists at Washington University School of...

Microtia and Atresia – Combined Approach by Plastic and Otologic Surgery

1 September 2014 | | Otology
In this textbook Kaga and Asato, both leading experts in otology and plastic surgery respectively, present over 10 years of their experience in joint reconstructive surgery for microtia and auricular atresia, combining autologous auricular reconstruction with external auricular canaloplasty and...

How to train adults with single-sided deafness and cochlear implants

1 November 2019 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Auditory training, Cochlear implant, Rehabilitation, Single-sided Deafness, Unilateral deafness
Cochlear implantation (CI) in patients with single-sided deafness (SSD) has been carried out in Perth, Australia from 2008. It poses challenges to clinicians and patients who are trying to tune in the poorer ear while still having a normally hearing...

The paediatric dilemma of one ear in and one ear out of NICE criteria

1 May 2019 | | Auditory Implants | Auditory perception, Criteria, Guidelines, Indications, Outcomes, Paediatric CI, Quality of life, Speech and language development, Unilateral CI
The auditory implant team in Manchester have implanted a cohort of children where audiological thresholds meet the NICE guidance for cochlear implantation (CI) in one ear only, and the other falls into moderate, severe or sloping loss. These children are...

Associated findings in MRI used for detecting acoustic neuroma

1 May 2017 | | Audiovestibular Symptoms, Incidental Findings, Internal Auditory Meatus, MRI, Vestibular Schwannoma
Presently, gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging is the ‘gold standard’ for investigating acoustic neuroma. There are often ‘incidental’ findings that may or may not be significant. In this study of 109 scans, the authors noted an uptake of 0.9% for...

Sound sensitivity in children

1 January 2019 | | Audiology - Paediatric
Sound tolerance symptoms in young patients can be a challenge, Veronica Kennedy and Claire Benton share their clinical experience in navigating the issues that can arise in diagnosis and management. In any noisy environment, it’s a common sight to see...
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Basic Concepts of Clinical Electrophysiology in Audiology

6 January 2023 |
Signal averaging principles have been around since 1875, but their application in medicine to enhance biologic signals was first made in 1947 for improved detection of electroencephalographic signals. It took a few more years until the first electrophysiological studies were...

Audiology in this issue... Paediatric Audiology Gamechangers (NovDec18)

7 November 2018
Fifty years ago, the National Conference on Education of the Deaf followed up on the Babbidge Report of 1965, recognising the failure of oralism in deaf education. Because young, deaf children at that time did not have access to sound, they could not develop speech and language. Further, because children were identified at two years or later, early intervention was only a dream.

Taking a fresh look at otoacoustic emissions

1 May 2018 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
So what has changed in four decades of OAEs? Do we now have all the answers? Have we reached our optimum recording ability? Professor Kemp explains what we know, what we don’t know and what’s to come. In the 40...

Secrets of the listening brain: what measuring the brain can tell us about hearing aid use and more

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
In a typical audiology clinic, on any given day, a person is waiting to see an audiologist to get a hearing aid (HA). It might have taken over 10 years to get to this point of considering a hearing aid(s)...