Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation

Nancy Tye-Murray is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and an Adjunct Professor at New Zealand's University of Canterbury. A founder of the University of Iowa Cochlear Implant Aural Rehabilitation Programs, she also served as Director of Research for Central Institute for the Deaf. In addition to developing several communication strategies training programs, auditory training programs, and speechreading tests, Dr. Tye-Murray is the principle investigator of three National Institutes of Health RO1 grants. Her research focuses on the effects of aging on audiovisual speech recognition, discourse comprehension, and auditory training, as well as audiovisual speech processing by children who have normal and impaired hearing. The author of six books and more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers, Dr. Tye-Murray is also a popular speaker both nationally and internationally.

Part I Conversation and communication strategies: conversation and communicational styles: assessment of conversational fluency and communication handicap; communication strategies training. Part II Speech perception: assessing hearing and speech reception; listening devices and related technology; auditory training; speechreading training. Part III Aural rehabilitation for adults: adults who have hearing loss; aural rehabilitation plans for hard-of-hearing adults; older adults; effects of noise on hearing and communication. Part IV Aural rehabilitation for children: hearing loss in children; intervention plans for children; speech language and literacy development; parent-centred language and conversation instruction; management of cochlear implants in children.