Hearing Aids Standards, Options, and Limitations: Standards, Options, and Limitations

by Michael Valente (Editor)

Learn all the new ordering options available to dispensing audiologists! Like the popular first edition, this second edition of Hearing Aids stresses a fundamental but frequently overlooked the process of ordering hearing aids is as important as selecting and verifying hearing aid fittings. In this revised and expanded edition, you'll find all the information you need to confidently order hearing aids, including entirely new chapters and updates that reflect the latest developments and technology advances in this fast-moving field. Packed with beneficial tables and diagrams, the text provides current and comprehensive guidelines on analyzing the different microphones, receivers, telecoils, and amplifiers; problems of distortion, noise, and the central nervous system; and the effect of these problems on hearing aid function. Key This is the comprehensive text/reference all graduate students and dispensing audiologists need to stay up-to-date on the theory and clinical applications of new hearing aid technology. Together with its newly updated companion text, Strategies for Selecting and Verifying Hearing Aid Fittings , this book forms the basis of a complete reference library on selecting, ordering, measuring, and verifying hearing aid fittings and performance.

440 pages, Hardcover

Published April 1, 2002