Real-life cases enable students and practitioners to integrate adult-centered audiology knowledge into clinical practice!


Adult Audiology Casebook, Second Edition by esteemed researchers and educators Michael Valente and L. Maureen Valente presents all new cases, reflecting issues that have become more prevalent in clinical settings. An impressive array of international authors provide expert advice, best practices, and vital tools clinicians need to successfully manage patient expectations and achieve optimal outcomes. Seven sections encompass a wide range of hearing, vestibular, and balance disorders, other conditions that result in hearing loss, diagnostic exams for auditory and vestibular function, and treatments.


Key Features
ㆍ　50 comprehensive cases covering all aspects of adult audiology include thought-provoking questions and answers followed by a summary of key points
ㆍ　Full color audiograms provide a reader-friendly hearing loss evaluation tool
ㆍ　Simple and complex treatment approaches including aural rehabilitation, sound therapy, auditory processing disorder therapy, hearing aids, cochlear implants, and hearing assistive technologies
ㆍ　Discussion of a wide variety of diagnostic tools used for audiometric assessment


Essential reading for graduate level audiology students, this casebook is a must have for sharpening and enhancing clinical skills. It also provides a robust classroom tool for audiology and speech-language pathology professors, as well as a practical daily reference for audiologists, otolaryngologists, and ENT residents.

Part I Hearing Disorders
　　　-　1 Meniere's Disease and Aided Distortion
　　　-　2 An Unexpected Cause of Sudden Hearing Loss
　　　-　3 Audiologic Management of an African American Patient with Sickle Cell Disease
　　　-　4 Diagnostic and Treatment Outcomes for an Adolescent with Left Functional Hemispherectomy
　　　-　5 Tympanic Membrane Perforation as a Result of a Japanese Beetle
　　　-　6 Middle Ear Effects from Playing a Brass Musical Instrument (with video)
　　　-　7 Maximum Conductive Hearing Loss Secondary to Surgical Closure of the External Auditory Canal
　　　-　8 When Mild Hearing Loss Accompanies Mild Cognitive Impairment
　　　-　9 Audiologic Management of a Patient with Psychogenic Hearing Loss
　　　-　10 How Auditory Processing Deficits Can Interfere with a College Student's Success in School and Work
　　　-　11 Hearing versus Auditory Processing Disorders: Are Hearing Aids Enough?
　　　-　12 An Unusual Case of Fluctuating Hearing Loss
　　　-　13 Hidden Hearing Loss
　　　-　14 Auditory Dyssynchrony: A Struggle to Understand Speech in Noise
　　　-　15 Auditory Processing Disorder Therapy for Mitochondrial Myopathy
　　　-　16 Asymmetric Hearing Loss: Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Treatment
　　　-　17 The Origins of Physiologic Modulation of a Low-Noise Microphone in a Human Ear Canal
　　　-　18 Occupational Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in a Zumba Instructor: Identification and Management


Part II Diagnostic Examination—Auditory Function
　　　-　19 Nonorganic Hearing Loss: A Case Study


Part III Diagnostic Examination—Vestibular Function
　　　-　20 Central Vestibular Dysfunction: A Case of Wernicke's Encephalopathy (with video)
　　　-　21 Hearing Disorders: Vestibular Schwannomas and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
　　　-　22 A Classic Case of Vestibular Neuritis
　　　-　23 Vestibular Migraine Disease and Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo in an Adult Patient
　　　-　24 A Case of Central and Peripheral Vestibular Impairment
　　　-　25 Importance of Audiologic and Vestibular Evaluation in the Diagnosis of Unilateral Vestibular Schwannoma
　　　-　26 The Presentation of Cerebellar Disease in Vestibular Testing of an Adult Patient
　　　-　27 The Role of an Inciting Event Causing Vertigo
　　　-　28 Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Lateral Canal Conundrum
　　　-　29 Adult Patient with Chronic Otitis Media and Recurrent Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
　　　-　30 A Case of "Definite" Meniere's Disease: Unilaterally Abnormal Caloric Test with Bilaterally Normal Video Head Impulse Testing Test
　　　-　31 Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome
　　　-　32 Endolymphatic Sac Tumor: Audiometric and Vestibular Considerations


Part IV Amplification
　　　-　33 Transcranial Contralateral Routing of Signal for Single-Sided Deafness
　　　-　34 I Hear Worse When I Wear Two Hearing Aids
　　　-　35 You Need to Take Care of Your Front End!
　　　-　36 I Only Want Hearing Aids&emdash;Today!
　　　-　37 Innovative Hearing Device for the Treatment of Mild to Severe Sensorineural Hearing Loss
　　　-　38 It Is Never Too Late
　　　-　39 Hearing Aid Prescriptive Methods in an Adult Patient
　　　-　40 Quick Fit versus Programming Hearing Aid Fittings: Acoustic and Perceptual Differences
　　　-　41 Fitting Hearing Aids to a Patient with Mild Hearing Loss
　　　-　42 Patient Decision to Purchase Hearing Aids: Bundling or Unbundling


Part V Cochlear Implants
　　　-　43 Cochlear Implantation in Meningitis Caused by Streptococcus suis
　　　-　44 Cochlear Implantation in Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media with Cholesteatoma
　

Part VI Hearing Assistive Technology
　　　-　45 Hearing Assistive Technology: A Viable Alternative to Hearing Aids
　　　-　46 Coping with Hearing Challenges at Work
　

Part VII Tinnitus and Misophonia Management
　　　-　47 Young Adult with Misophonia
　　　-　48 Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
　　　-　49 A Case of Extreme Misophonia and Hyperacusis
　　　-　50 Maximizing Tinnitus/Hyperacusis Sound Therapy with Real Ear Measures