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7.1 Introduction; children should not be treated as young adults Counselling adults, who according to their audiogram should profit from amplification, is not always successful. Adults might deny their hearing problems or postpone a hearing aid trial. If their attitude is more positive, they might only be interested in hardly visible devices, even if speech recognition with such devices is not optimal. For children, there is less room to move because the better the hearing the higher the chance Read more [...]

Part 2. Challenges and limitations of implantable hearing devices (auditory implants) for sensorineural hearing loss  8. Sensorineural hearing loss  8.1 Auditory implants for moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss To rehabilitate sensorineural hearing loss, conventional air-conduction hearing aids are the first choice (e.g. behind-the-ear devices or BTEs; Figure 2.1, chapter 2). If the sensorineural hearing loss is not too severe, it is possible to make conversational speech audible Read more [...]

Appendix 1 About the author: Ad Snik studied physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology and got the master’s degree in 1976. In 1982, he acquired the doctor’s degree from the same university with a thesis entitled ‘Visco-elastic properties of monomolecular layers’. After two years of lecturing Physics and Electronics, he specialized in medical physics and was registered in 1987 as a medical physicist/ audiologist. In 1988 the author was employed as a clinical audiologist and researcher Read more [...]

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