Introduction to Auditory Rehabilitation ─ A Contemporary Issues Approach

Introduction to Auditory Rehabilitation: A Contemporary Issues Approach provides students with a solid foundation of essential auditory rehabilitation concepts, knowledge, and skills within the context of critical contemporary issues that will prepare future practitioners for service to diverse patient populations.

With a dynamic approach that engages and immerses students in the real world of clinical practice and decision making, a wealth of pedagogical features helps readers process and internalize the central issues, tools, and philosophies of the field. The text addresses an extensive array of unique topics including the psychological aspects of hearing impairment and multicultural and professional issues associated with auditory rehabilitation. Additionally, the text focuses on contemporary issues such as the aging population, auditory plasticity, and the increasing use of technology. These issues are addressed comprehensively by discussing age groups independent of one another so that a cohesive understanding of these issues across the lifespan becomes clear to the reader.

Features include:

A dynamic contemporary context holds students' interest while also giving them a window into the real-life clinical practices of auditory rehabilitation.

A focus on auditory rehabilitation across the lifespan aids student understanding of the treatment of hearing impairment during each stage of life, including separate chapters for infants and toddlers, school-age children, young to middle-aged adults, and elderly adults.

A process-driven approach that integrates core concepts, knowledge, and skills within the context of the hearing health continuum, facilitating the conceptualization of the service, delivery continuum of screening, diagnosis, and treatment.

A separate chapter on evidence-based practice in auditory rehabilitation, complete with tools, teaches readers how to question, observe, enumerate, and analyze specific interventions.

Expansive coverage of assistive hearing technology such as hearing aids and cochlear implant:, keeps students up to date on modern advancements in the field.

A wealth of pedagogical features-including learning objectives, highlighted terminology, casebook reflections, chapter summaries, learning activities, and review exercises-organizes the material, specifies key knowledge and skills, and engages the reader.

Carole E. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Communication Disorders at Auburn University and runs the Auburn Unviersity Auditory Rehabilitation Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and her Au.D. from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, School of Audiology. Aside from publishing a number of articles and book chapters, she has co-authored two books, Guidebook for Support Programs in Aural Rehabilitation (Singular, 1999) and Handbook of Outcomes Measurement in Audiology (Singular, 2002). In addition, she was recipient of the Larry Mauldin Award for Excellence in Education in 2007.