Hearing Disorders Handbook

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Maurice H. Miller, Jerome Schein

Details: 275 pages, B&W, Softcover, 5.5" x 8.5"

ISBN13: 978-1-59756-282-9

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Practical, concise, and time-saving, Hearing Disorders Handbook provides comprehensive, reliable and accurate descriptions of auditory and vestibular disorders, their frequency of occurrence, etiology, diagnosis, and management - all in a single resource.

It approaches the subject from a multitude of perspectives from the diverse disciplines that make up the typical hearing rehabilitation team - including audiologists, otologists, speech and language pathologists, plus those working in the related fields of education, genetics, pediatrics, and psychology. Each topic is presented in concise and consistently organized form, sifting the essential from the unessential, and includes references to original print and electronic sources. Gaps in the knowledge of hearing and vestibular disorders are clearly denoted and directions to sources of information that supplement the material available about each disorder are given.

Reviews

"For advanced students and scholars, this work will serve as a valuable and convenient quick reference. Since it is very clearly written, it could be helpful to some general readers."
—L.A. Hartman, Coastal Carolina University, CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (2009)

"The handbook covers frequency of occurrence, diagnosis, and management of many hearing disorders as well as related aspects. Each disorder is explained in the same organized manner, making this book very user friendly."
—Kelly Kaufman, AuD (La Salle University School of Nursing and Health Sciences), Doody's Review Service (2008)

"Miller and Schein do an excellent job of presenting a large body of information that is non-biased, clinically relevant, and current without resorting to bullet points or factoids."
—Kirstin Chiasson (Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio), International Journal of Audiology (2009)

"This is a worthy effort by Dr Maurice H Miller and Dr Jerome D Schein to help hearing professionals and students quickly acquire an understanding of hearing disorders. ... I would recommend this book to all hearing care professionals and students for its clarity and reliable descriptions of auditory and vestibular disorders. This book encourages thoughtful consideration of current trends in hearing disorder."
—Dr. Nadeem Mukhtar, Community Ear and Hearing Health (2009)

"... A small, concise, easy "on the go" reference, which would be most useful for professionals in medical settings. ... This book provided excellent information."
—Jill Foltz, AuD, Otology & Neurotology (2010)

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Hearing Disorders
Endogenous Etiology
Exogenous Etiology
Mixed and Undetermined Etiology
Vestibular Disorders
Management Options
Amplification
Cochlear Implants
Compensation Strategies
Demographic, Social, Economic Aspects
Index

Authors

Maurice H. Miller

Dr. Maurice H. Miller (PhD, Columbia University, 1956) is Professor Emeritus of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology at the Steinhardt School of Education of New York University. He was voted Professor of the Year at NYU and is the recipient of the Career Award from the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) in 1996, the largest organization of audiologists in the world.

He continues to teach at NYU as Adjunct Professor. He is a fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and a founding member of the AAA. He established the Occupational Hearing Conservation programs for the New York Times, con Edison of NY, the Wall Street Journal, Brooklyn Union Gas, and the Schering Plough Pharmaceutical Company. He continues to serve Con Edison and Schering Plough as an Occupational Hearing Conservation Consultant.

He has authored over 200 articles in the peer-reviewed literature, four texts, and textbook chapters. He continues to serve actively as forensic and industrial-occupational audiologic consultant.

Areas of special interest in addition to occupational hearing conservation include Menieres disease (guest edited January 2006 issue on the subject for J. of the AAA), idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, and diagnosis and management of persons with severe, chronic, intractable tinnitus. He served on the 5 person ASHA committee responsible for allowing audiologists to dispense hearing aids for the first time in the history of the profession, which changed the face of Audiology forever.

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Jerome Schein

Dr. Schein is the sole person to have held both of the only two endowed chairs of deafness research in the worldthe P. V. Doctor Chair, at Gallaudet University, and the David Peikoff Chair, at the University of Alberta (Canada).

He is Professor Emeritus, New York University, and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of Alberta.

He has authored over 200 referred articles, books, and monographs, and he continues to write, consult, and lecture on sensory rehabilitation.

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