Hearing Aids, 2nd Edition

Hearing Aids 2nd Edition

 By

• Harvey Dillon, Ph.D., Director of Research, National Acoustic Laboratories of Australia, Sydney, New South Wales

Praise for this book:

This book succeeds in its aim of providing a practically useful and theoretically sound comprehensive ook on hearing aids … It makes the most complicated concepts easy to understand, with excellent cross referencing … I certainly wouldn’t want to be without this book and I highly recommend it to everyone with an interest in hearing aids. — Pauline Smith, ENT & Audiology News

Praise for the first edition:

One of the best textbooks I have ever used…written by a researcher with a stellar reputation [who is also] an expert on the clinical aspects of the field…packed with information from both a theoretical and practical perspective…makes difficult concepts comprehensible…from an instructors point of view, it is a sheer delight. –Adrienne Rubenstein, PhD, Professor, Department of Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn College, New York

Key Features:

• Completely revised to reflect the research and technological advances of the last decade
• New chapters on directional microphones and the latest digital signal processing strategies
• Extensive coverage of all aspects of open-canal, thin-tube hearing aids
• Practical tips, tables, and procedures designed to be pinned on the walls of clinics
• Each cross-referenced chapter builds on the previous chapters

Hearing Aids, Second Edition, is a book within a book:

• Each chapter has a one-page synopsis that captures the key concepts of each topic
• The material that students most need is contained in marked paragraphs that flow after each other to form a coherent thin book inside the larger book
• Intervening additional paragraphs add satisfying depth

Written, comprehensively referenced, and extensively reviewed by leaders in the field, this book is ideal as a core graduate text as well as a standard reference for clinicians.

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