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paediatric audiological medicine
professionals will find a wide range of topics relevant to their work with hearing impaired children or those suspected of having an impairment in this book . a chapter on epidemiology includes the prevalence of hearing impairment and several additional chapters are devoted to the various causative factors . detection of a hearing loss measurement of the degree of hearing loss and identification of the site of lesion are covered together with management of any hearing loss found . individual chapters give coverage to balance disorders tinnitus progressive hearing loss auditory neuropathy central auditory processing disorders and unilateral hearing impairment . methods of communication communication disorders and the psychological effects of a hearing impairment are included together with consideration of education and employment issues .