Description

An audiologist is a health-care professional specializing in identifying, diagnosing, treating and monitoring disorders of the auditory, and vestibular system portions of the ear. Audiologists are trained to diagnose, manage and/or treat hearing, tinnitus, or balance problems. They dispense, manage, and rehabilitate hearing aids and assess candidacy for and map cochlear implants. They counsel families through a new diagnosis of hearing loss in infants, and help teach coping and compensation skills to late-deafened adults. The auditory working memory was assessed through digit span task and digit sequencing tasks. Auditory digit span included forward and backward digit span test and auditory digit sequencing tasks included ascending and descending digit test. These tests were administered using “Auditory cognitive training module”. The hearing impairment is one among many physical handicaps of several individuals. It affects adversely the impaired children's performance in learning as it reduces the knowledge of the surrounding environment and the whole world. It develops language inefficiency and reduces communication ability. This book is concisely based on the basic concepts of hearing, its terminology, ear structure, and modalities of aural rehabilitation. It may help the teachers and the parents of children with disabilities to understand the basic concepts of the disability.