Professionals will find a wide range of topics relevant to their work with hearing impaired children or those suspected of having an impairment in Paediatric Audiological Medicine.
A chapter on epidemiology includes the prevalence of hearing impairment and several additional chapters are devoted to the various causative factors. Detection of a hearing loss, measurement of the degree of hearing loss and identification of the site of lesion are covered together with management of any hearing loss found.
Methods of communication, communication disorders and the psychological effects of a hearing impairment are included together with consideration of education and employment issues.
Contents
- Epidemiology of permanent childhood hearing impairment
- Screening and surveillance
- Behavioural tests of hearing
- Neuro-diagnostic paediatric audiology
- Radiological abnormalities of the ear
- Genetics of hearing loss
- Craniofacial syndromes and hearing loss
- Infectious causes of paediatric hearing impairment
- Adverse perinatal factors and hearing loss
- Acute otitis media and otitis media with effusion
- Central auditory processing disorders
- Auditory neuropathy
- Progressive hearing loss
- Children with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss
- Medical management of the deaf child in a multidisciplinary context
- Selecting amplifi cation for children
- Cochlear implants in children
- Managing the listening environment: classroom acoustics and assistive listening devices.
- Balance disorders in children
- Vestibular testing in children
- Management of tinnitus in children
- Development of early vocalisation and language behaviours of young hearing-impaired children
- Deaf children and communication approaches
- Delay and disorder in speech and language
- Psychological effects of deafness and hearing impairment
- The education of deaf and hearing-impaired children
Index
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