Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Evidence-Based Practice -- 2. The Audiologist and Hearing Aid Provision -- 3. Understanding the Hearing Aid Candidate -- 4. Speech Acoustics -- 5. Pre-Fitting Tests Using Frequency-Specific Measures -- 6. Pre-Fitting Testing Using Speech Material -- 7. Self-Assessment Scales for Pre-Fitting Testing -- 8. Hearing Aid Styles and Fitting Applications -- 9. Ear Impressions, Earmolds, and Associated Plumbing -- 10. Hearing Aid Hardware and Software: The Basics -- 11. Signal Classification and Sound Cleaning Technologies -- 12. More Hearing Aid Features and Algorithms -- 13. Electroacoustic and Other Quality Control Techniques -- 14. Prescriptive Formulas and Programming -- 15. Behavioral Assessment During Clinical Fittings -- 16. Probe Microphone Measures: Rationale and Procedures -- 17. Probe-Microphone Measures: Clinical Uses -- 18. Hearing Aid Orientation and Troubleshooting -- 19. Validation: Self-Report Outcomes -- 20. Supplemental Information: Corrections, Conversions, and Calculations -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
Essentials of Modern Hearing Aids: Selection, Fitting, and Verification is a comprehensive textbook, ideal for graduate-level amplification courses in audiology programs. It also is the ultimate go-to reference for anyone fitting and dispensing hearing aids..