ANNOTATION

The book contains black-and-white illustrations.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Hearing Instrument Technology for the Hearing Healthcare Professional, 2E brings together modern material for the highly specialized are of hearing instrument acousticians in hearing instrument technology. Beginning with an overview of hearing instrument technology from the beginning to the "digital" era, the text covers hearing instrument types and statistics on these instruments, hearing instrument measurements, transducers, acoustic modifications, hearing instrument functions, accessories, and troubleshooting, digital hearing instruments, and audiological background.

FROM THE CRITICS

Deborah W. Moncrieff

This is an updated edition to a previously published book. The basic text is designed to provide technical information about hearing aids to persons engaged in audiology and/or hearing aid fitting. This second edition is designed to update information about digital hearing aids. Two chapters on digital hearing instruments are provided. The author mentions hearing instrument acousticians as the audience for this book. This probably means those individuals trained by hearing aid companies, many of whom are audiologists and many of whom are not. As an audiologist and professor in an audiology program, I am evaluating this book from the point of view of informing audiology students. The content of this book is very good. Hearing aid technical information is covered very thoroughly and would make an excellent contribution to a course on amplification in an audiology program. The history of the technology is also covered, and an abundance of excellent figures and diagrams are included to help explain complex concepts. I would rate this book very highly and plan to use it in my office library for reference use in my teaching.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Deborah W. Moncrieff, PhD (University of Florida)Description: This is an updated edition to a previously published book. The basic text is designed to provide technical information about hearing aids to persons engaged in audiology and/or hearing aid fitting. Purpose: This second edition is designed to update information about digital hearing aids. Two chapters on digital hearing instruments are provided. Audience: The author mentions hearing instrument acousticians as the audience for this book. This probably means those individuals trained by hearing aid companies, many of whom are audiologists and many of whom are not. As an audiologist and professor in an audiology program, I am evaluating this book from the point of view of informing audiology students. Features: The content of this book is very good. Hearing aid technical information is covered very thoroughly and would make an excellent contribution to a course on amplification in an audiology program. The history of the technology is also covered, and an abundance of excellent figures and diagrams are included to help explain complex concepts. Assessment: I would rate this book very highly and plan to use it in my office library for reference use in my teaching.

Booknews

Vonlanthen developed the 1995 first edition while teaching trainee hearing instrument acousticians to provide them with the basic knowledge that is a necessary foundation for designing devices. After an introduction to the history and basic components, he covers hearing instrument types, measurements and standards, transducers, acoustic modifications, functions, accessories, troubleshooting, digitally programmable hearing instruments, and audiological background. He includes a glossary of digital signal processing and psychoacoustics that does not indicate pronunciation but provides extensive explanations of terms. The second edition incorporates recent technological developments. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

RATING

3 Stars from Doody

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