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Titolo: Paediatric audiological medicine [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Valerie E. Newton Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Edizione: 2nd ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (540 p.)
Disciplina: 618.92/09789
618.920978
Soggetto topico: Hearing disorders in children
Audiology
Altri autori: NewtonValerie E  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Paediatric Audiological Medicine, 2e; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1: Epidemiology of permanent childhood hearing impairment; 2: Screening and surveillance; 3: Behavioural tests of hearing; 4: Neuro-diagnostic paediatric audiology; 5: Radiological abnormalities of the ear; 6: Genetics of hearing loss; 7: Craniofacial syndromes and hearing loss; 8: Infectious causes of paediatric hearing impairment; 9: Adverse perinatal factors and hearing loss; 10: Acute otitis media and otitis media with effusion; 11: Central auditory processing disorders; 12: Auditory neuropathy
13: Progressive hearing loss14: Children with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss; 15: Medical management of the deaf child in a multidisciplinary context; 16: Selecting amplification for children; 17: Cochlear implants in children; 18: Managing the listening environment: classroom acoustics and assistive listening devices; 19: Balance disorders in children; 20: Vestibular testing in children; 21: Management of tinnitus in children; 22: Development of early vocalisation and language behaviours of young hearing-impaired children; 23: Deaf children and communication approaches
24: Delay and disorder in speech and language25: Psychological effects of deafness and hearing impairment; 26: The education of deaf and hearing-impaired children; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Professionals will find a wide range of topics relevant to their work with hearing impaired children or those suspected of having an impairment in this book. 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. Individual chapters give coverage to balance disorders, tinnitus, progressive hearing loss, auditory neuropathy, cen
Titolo autorizzato: Paediatric audiological medicine  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-470-98795-2
1-282-01069-7
9786612010699
0-470-98796-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782735103321
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