Living With Hearing Difficulties: The Process of Enablement - Couverture souple

Stephens, Dafydd

 
9780470019856: Living With Hearing Difficulties: The Process of Enablement
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0470019859 ISBN 13 : 9780470019856
Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Living with Hearing Difficulties is a source-book for professionals who encounter and support individuals with hearing difficulties. It will also be of interest to people with hearing difficulties themselves and those close to them. The book highlights the concept of audiological enablement as being an interactive process requiring the active involvement of both clinician and patient.

The thirteen chapters encompass four sections which broadly follow the categories of the World Health Organization's ICF (2001):

  • Section 1 addresses types of hearing disorders, the impairments they cause and also the process of help seeking.
  • Section 2 deals with the effects of hearing impairment on communication and psychosocial functioning.
  • Section 3 considers the individual in their environment; their family, work, and leisure. Section 4 elaborates on the process of enablement in a non-prescriptive manner.

The authors approach the problems and needs from the standpoint of what the patient/client is seeking. Enablement is seen as a team effort between the professionals, the patient and their family in an ever-changing environment. This entails using any relevant techniques to ensure the well-being of the individual with hearing impairment; that end remains very much their goal.

The book also has a companion website www.wiley.com/go/stephens which hosts additional downloadable documents as well as a demonstration of the concept of the signal-to-noise ratio.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dafydd Stephens FRCP, is Honorary Professor of Audiological Medicine at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

Sophia E. Kramer, PhD, is Senior Researcher and Psychologist at the Department of E.N.T. / Audiology / EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research at the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Éditeur
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0470019859
ISBN 13 
9780470019856
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
256
Éditeur
Kramer Sophia E.
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