Hearing Sciences:A Foundational Approach (The Allyn & Bacon Communication Sciences and Disorders) - Tapa blanda

This first edition text presents an introduction to hearing science at a comprehensively fundamental level of departure—yet includes a broad coverage of auditory mechanisms and function—to give readers a battery of logical tools upon which to build their knowledge. The text presents principles essential to knowledge-base competency in audiology, speech-language pathology, and allied fields embracing the auditory system. The uniquely comprehensive approach explains the fundamental concepts of physics, acoustics, anatomy, physiology, and sensory psychology. The text emphasizes the concepts underlying the diagnosis of disorders of the auditory system and their treatment, whether medical or rehabilitative.

·Presents a strong overview of the classically defined concepts of the capacities of the auditory system, plus instruction in the most basic concepts of quantification and physics.

·Avoids overwhelming students with technical details.

·Provides exposure to sophisticated sound analyses in a non-mathematical manner, as well as in-depth treatment of the ubiquitous decibel.

·Includes sufficient, yet not over-whelming, detail in the anatomy of the peripheral and central auditory systems.

·Includes d ata-intensive figures and graphs enhance the clarity of concepts.

·Presents up to date, yet highly digestible researchon the concept of auditory physiology and neurophysiology.

·Provides a strong foundation for the important areas of clinical research and practice through the condensed presentation of various principles of psychophysics and the foundation of clinical behavioral test methods.

·Presents hearing capacities and proclivity with thorough integration of the underlying mechanisms of hearing/listening.

·Includes episodic boxed features that encourage readers to think beyond each chapter’s scope and provide glimpses into advanced clinical methods.

·Allows students to experience many of the effects that are described through supplemental tools such as executive summaries and take-home messages.