The Handbook of Clinical Audiology.

TLDR

The volume is an encyclopedic analysis of activities focused on people with hearing problems, real or imagined, peripheral or central. It is organized into sections covering clinical audiology introduction, basic hearing evaluation, differential diagnosis, and specific topics such as children, hearing aids, and aural rehabilitation. Reviewers find it a useful resource for clinical audiology, though opinions vary on individual chapters.

Abstract

This volume is an ambitious, almost encyclopedic text devoted to an analysis of "... activities whose main objective is the person with a 'hearing problem' (in its broadest sense), whether real or imagined, peripheral or central." The sections include an introduction to clinical audiology, a section dealing with the basic hearing evaluation, three sections on differential diagnosis (cochlear vs retrocochlear; central; nonorganic loss and other special procedures), and individual sections covering hearing and auditory perception in children, hearing aids, and aural rehabilitation. This is a good book; for those interested in clinical audiology, it is worth having. Readers will appreciate some chapters, be disappointed by some chapters, and disinterested in others, but this is inevitable in a collection which ranges from achapter on the history of hearing aids to a chapter