Newton Valerie E. (ed.) Paediatric Audiological Medicine

2nd edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 539 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-31987-1Professionals 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, central auditory processing disorders and unilateral hearing impairment. Methods of communication, communication disorders and the psychological effects of a hearing impairment are included together with consideration of education and employment issues.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