Auditory Processing Deficits: Assessment and Intervention

ISBN-13: 9781604068382 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 502 str.

Vishakha Rawool

Opis

This is an excellent introductory textbook for AuD students because the impressive illustrations help simplify complex concepts related to APD. -- Doody's Review (starred review)Auditory Processing Deficits is designed to provide readers with key clinical information on APD, an important, growing area of interest in the field of audiology. The book contains the latest guidelines on screening, diagnosis, and intervention of auditory processing deficits and includes key information on related assessment tools and management strategies. Key Features:

• More than 300 high-quality, full-color illustrations help readers understand complex topics
• Graphics showing clinical research data aid in comprehension and retention of difficult concepts
• Case examples facilitate the synthesis of information from clinical assessments and creation of intervention plans
• Each chapter includes a section on future trends that informs readers of upcoming technologies or methodologies that could benefit patients

Written by an experienced authority on APD, with knowledge and experience in three related fields including audiology, speech-language pathology, and teaching for the deaf, this book is an essential clinical guide for graduate students in audiology as well as practicing audiologists.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. Maturation and Plasticity of the Neural Auditory System
3. Assessing and Documenting Peripheral Auditory Status
4. Screening and Diagnostic Procedures and Considerations
5. Auditory Temporal Processing Assessment
6. Binaural Processing Assessment
7. Assessment of the Processing of Monaural Low-Redundancy Speech
8. Intervention for Auditory Processing Deficits
9. Training to Improve Auditory Temporal Processing
10. Training to Improve Binaural Processing
11. Training to Improve Speech Recognition
12. Evidence-based Practice and Effectiveness of Intervention
13. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Auditory Processing Deficits
14. Language-related Impairments and Auditory Processing Deficits
15. Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder Including Auditory Synaptopathy
16. Auditory Processing Deficits Due to Exposure to Ototoxins
17. Age-related Deficits in Auditory Processing