Hearing In Children

This totally revised Fifth Edition is an exhaustive and thoroughly referenced account of the current state of knowledge in pediatric hearing loss. With emphasis on medical aspects, it covers identification, evaluation and management of children with hearing impairments and deafness. Features updates and discussions of new hearing tests and screening technologies, discussions on the role of the family in childhood deafness and schools of thought in the management of children with hearing loss, and hearing aid fitting and management issues. A new chapter addresses Otitis Media. Includes an alphabetized appendix in encyclopedia-like format on ninety syndromes and common disorders associated with childhood deafness.