AUDITORY PROCESSING DEFICITS. ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION

Auditory Processing Deficits is designed to provide readers with key clinical information on APD, an important, growing area of interest in the field of audiology. The book contains the latest guidelines on screening, diagnosis, and intervention of auditory processing deficits and includes key information on related assessment tools and management strategies.

Key Features:
- More than 300 high-quality, full-color illustrations help readers understand complex topics
- Graphics showing clinical research data aid in comprehension and retention of difficult concepts
- Each chapter includes a section on future trends that informs readers of upcoming technologies or methodologies that could benefit patients

Author
Vishakha W. Rawool, PhD, CCC-A, FAAA
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Maturation and Plasticity of the Neural Auditory System
Chapter 3. Assessing and Documenting Peripheral Auditory Status
Chapter 4. Screening and Diagnostic Procedures and Considerations
Chapter 5. Auditory Temporal Processing Assessment
Chapter 6. Binaural Processing Assessment
Chapter 7. Assessment of the processing of monaural low redundancy speech
Chapter 8. Intervention for Auditory Processing Deficits
Chapter 9. Training to Improve Auditory Temporal Processing
Chapter 10. Training to Improve Binaural Processing
Chapter 11. Training to Improve Speech Recognition
Chapter 12. Evidence Based Practice and Effectiveness of Intervention
Chapter 13. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders and Auditory Processing Deficits
Chapter 14. Language Related Impairments and Auditory Processing Deficits
Chapter 15. Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder including Auditory Synaptopathy
Chapter 16. Auditory Processing Deficits Due to Exposure to Ototoxins
Chapter 17. Age Related Deficits in Auditory Processing