Tag: Cochlear

Free Download Pediatric Cochlear Implantation: Learning and the Brain
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031671872 | 566 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 174 MB
This second edition text will provide updated information to professionals and students in fields relevant to cochlear implantation. The main objective of this book is to provide the latest information about pediatric candidacy evaluation, medical and vestibular evaluation, surgery, language and literacy outcomes, habilitation, spatial hearing, influence of family dynamics and educational needs. This text also expands upon newer indications including unilateral and asymmetric hearing loss, management of children with residual hearing, and management of children from families whose primary language is Spanish. Additional important new topics discussed include the role of interprofessional training to better serve children, the Australian hearing health care model to achieve early implantation and addressing global barriers to pediatric implantation.

Free Download Michael J. Ruckenstien, "Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Hearing Devices"
English | ISBN: 159756432X | 2012 | 424 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
Hearing remains the only human sense that can be restored if damaged. Thus, cochlear implants and other implantable hearing mechanisms have become more prevalent solutions to modern-day hearing trauma, making it imperative for clinicians to gain expertise on the subject. This text will provide hearing professionals – who are oftentimes ignorant of the fundamental indications for and benefits of hearing devices – with the knowledge necessary to wholly understand these implantable mechanisms so that they can incorporate them into their practices.

Free Download Stuart Blume, "The Artificial Ear: Cochlear Implants and the Culture of Deafness"
English | 2009 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 0813546591, 0813546605 | PDF | 1,5 mb
When it was first developed, the cochlear implant was hailed as a "miracle cure" for deafness. That relatively few deaf adults seemed to want it was puzzling. The technology was then modified for use with deaf children, 90 percent of whom have hearing parents. Then, controversy struck as the Deaf community overwhelmingly protested the use of the device and procedure. For them, the cochlear implant was not viewed in the context of medical progress and advances in the physiology of hearing, but instead represented the historic oppression of deaf people and of sign languages.

Free Download Complex Cochlear Implant Cases: Management and Troubleshooting by Joshua D. Sevier
English | November 8, 2022 | ISBN: 1635503833 | 278 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
Not all cochlear implant cases present in a traditional manner, which calls for audiologists to seek a second opinion in more intricate and difficult cases. Complex Cochlear Implant Cases: Management and Troubleshooting offers both new and experienced cochlear implant audiologists the opportunity to tap into the knowledge and experience of skilled colleagues who have handled unique and challenging clinical situations with current or potential implant recipients. The book includes pediatric and adult complex cases pertaining to issues in mapping because of various medical conditions, equipment issues, improper device programming, lack of objective methods, and more.