Synopses & Reviews
This highly anticipated work is the complete, one-stop guide to hearing aids, covering everything you need to know to prescribe, select, fit, measure, and evaluate their performance. Dr. Dillon is a sought-after speaker and instructor throughout the world.
Some of the benefits of this acclaimed text:
- COMPREHENSIVE--From basic concepts of hearing loss, hearing aid software and hardware, to assessment guidelines and results-oriented counseling methods, the book covers it all!
- THEORETICALLY SOUND--All findings explained in detail to clarify concepts, making the book ideal as a standard reference for clinicians as well as a core text in graduate courses
- PRACTICAL--Easy-to-use tips, tables, and procedures designed to be pinned to clinic walls for instant reference
- ACCESSIBLE--Synopses, key paragraphs, and detailed materials help you progress from basic to highly sophisticated concepts easily
- INTEGRATED AND CROSS-REFERENCED--Each cross-referenced chapter builds on previous chapters, with the flow and consistency of a single author
- INNOVATIVE--You will discover research results and procedures that have not yet appeared in the literature, giving you an important professional edge
Opinion leaders in the field have been uniformly enthusiastic:
The book is smashing...Should be a required reference for anyone who deals with hearing aids. All of the materials, including an outstanding chapter on pediatric amplification, are presented in a practical and immediately useful manner. --Jerry Northern, author and editor, HearX*
Packed with concise, up-to-date, useful information concerning the selection and fitting of hearing aids. I'd highly recommend this text for graduate audiology students to anyone involved in hearing aid dispensing.--Gus Mueller, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
Review
An exhaustive and in-depth look at virtually all aspects of hearing aids...well-written...comprehensive...Harry Dillon is certainly one of the world's best hearing aid experts...a valuable text for a graduate-level hearing aid seminar, as well as a clinic reference for practicing audiologists. --www.audiology.orgOne 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 instructor's point of view, it is a sheer delight. --Adrienne Rubenstein, PhD, Professor, Department of Speech Communication Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn College, New YorkThe book is smashing!..Should be a required reference for anyone who deals with hearing aids. All of the materials, including an outstanding chapter on pediatric amplification, are presented in a practical and immediately useful manner.--Jerry Northern, author and editor, HearX, FloridaPacked with concise, up-to-date, useful information concerning the selection and fitting of hearing aids. I'd highly recommend this text for graduate audiology students or anyone involved in hearing aid dispensing. --Gus Mueller, Adjunct Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University[Five out of five ears for students] A comprehensive look at hearing aids...a very readable text...complex concepts are presented in a user-friendly and understandable fashion, without compromising detail or precision...an in-depth look of virtually all aspects of hearing aids...carefully documents cochlear implant candidacy...[written by] one of the world's best hearing aid experts.--American Academy of Audiology
Synopsis
Praise for this book:
This book succeeds in its aim of providing a practically useful and theoretically sound comprehensive book 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
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.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
Praise for the first edition:
I cannot praise this book too highly it is undoubtedly now the benchmark text in this area, and is an absolute essential for every audiologist and student. Graham Sutton, International Journal of Audiology, Vol. 41, No. 6, 2002
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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