Table of Contents:
  • Clinical audiology
  • Neuro-otology for audiologists
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Calibration : puretone, speech, and noise signals
  • Behavioral tests
  • Puretone evaluation
  • Transducers for audiologic testing
  • Speech audiometry
  • Cochlear and retrocochlear behavioral tests
  • Clinical masking
  • Case history, integrating audiologic results, and clinical decision analysis
  • Physiologic tests of auditory and related functions
  • Basic principles of acoustic immittance measures
  • Tympanometry
  • The acoustic reflex
  • Overview of auditory evoked potentials
  • Electrocochleography
  • Auditory brainstem response : differential diagnosis
  • Threshold prediction using auditory brainstem response and steady-state evoked potentials with infants and young children
  • Intraoperative monitoring of auditory evoked potentials and facial nerve electromyography
  • Middle-latency auditory evoked potentials : basic issues and potential applications
  • Cortical event-related potentials for auditory stimuli
  • Evaluation and management of balance system disorders
  • Otoacoustic emissions
  • Special populations
  • Detection and assessment of hearing loss in infants and children
  • Hearing and immittance screening
  • Central auditory processing
  • Central auditory processing testing : a battery approach
  • Behavioral therapeutic approaches for central auditory problems
  • Central auditory evaluation of patients with neurologic involvement
  • Current directions in educational audiology
  • Mental retardation and/or developmental disabilities
  • Occupational hearing conservation
  • Pseudohypacusis
  • Hearing loss in the elderly : a new look at an old problem
  • Management of hearing disorders
  • Room acoustics and auditory rehabilitation technology
  • Characteristics and use of hearing aids
  • Hearing aid fitting and verification procedures for children
  • Hearing aid fitting and verification procedures for adults
  • The role of audiology in the hearing health care industry
  • Cochlear implants
  • Management options for children with hearing loss
  • Facilitating improved communication for adults with hearing impairment.