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.

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Ch. 1 Developmental anatomy of the ear 1
Ch. 2 Physiology of the auditory and vestibular systems 15
Ch. 3 Radiological abnormalities of the ear 36
Ch. 4 Epidemiology of permanent childhood hearing impairment 65
Ch. 5 Behavioural tests of hearing 91
Ch. 6 Neurodiagnostic paediatric audiology 113
Ch. 7 Screening and surveillance 146
Ch. 8 Genetics of hearing impairment 169
Ch. 9 Infectious causes of paediatric hearing impairment 183
Ch. 10 Adverse perinatal factors associated with hearing impairment 211
Ch. 11 Craniofacial syndromes and hearing impairment with special reference to syndromes with external ear anomalies 224
Ch. 12 Otitis media: diagnosis and management 232
Ch. 13 Central auditory processing disorders 246
Ch. 14 Progressive hearing loss 269
Ch. 15 Children with a unilateral sensorineural hearing impairment 294
Ch. 16 Management of the hearing-impaired child 314
Ch. 17 Selecting amplification for children 331
Ch. 18 Cochlear implants in children 360
Ch. 19 Balance disorders 379
Ch. 20 Management of tinnitus in children 397
Ch. 21 Language development in hearing and deaf children 405
Ch. 22 Delay and disorder in speech and language 423
Ch. 23 Psychological effects of hearing impairment 446
Ch. 24 Choosing between alternative communication approaches 464
Ch. 25 Education of the hearing-impaired child 481
References 501
Index 567