Fundamentals of Audiology and Hearing Aids

Currently, there is a breakthrough in the field of auditory-speech and social rehabilitation of people with hearing impairments. This has become possible with the emergence of new objective methods for diagnosing auditory disorders, the creation of high-quality hearing aids, cochlear and brainstem auditory implants. Specialists-audiologists will require new knowledge in various fields of science to work in these new conditions.

The book contains basic modern information on audiology and hearing aids, as well as information from related fields important for the work of an audiologist. It presents objective and subjective methods for diagnosing hearing impairments, survey methods, and surdopedagogical techniques for assessing hearing, diagnostic and screening studies of hearing. It describes the design of hearing aids, their main characteristics, the process of selecting and adjusting hearing aids, the peculiarities of hearing aid fitting for different groups of patients, including young children, and the evaluation of the effectiveness of hearing aids in various categories of patients. Issues faced by people with hearing impairments are discussed, along with solutions to these problems using modern hearing aids, cochlear and brainstem auditory implants, FM systems.

The book is intended for surdopedagogues, otolaryngologists, audiologists, medical students, and students of defectology faculties, as well as other specialists involved in the diagnosis of hearing disorders and the rehabilitation of adults and children with hearing impairments. The monograph is the second edition of a book previously published under the title «Introduction to Audiology and Hearing Aids». This edition contains significant corrections and additions.