Hearing Impairment and Disability

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Preface; Introduction; Advancements in Pediatric Hearing Assessments; A Review on Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) Programs in Asian Developing Countries; Expanding Access to Services for Hearing-Disabled School Children: The Application of Telemedicine in the Field of Audiology; Development and Validation of Multidimensional Pictorial Questionnaire for Adult with Hearing Impairment; Acoustic Reflex Testing in Clinical Audiology: What Is the Next Direction?; Analysis of Communication Strategies Used by Hearing Impaired Individuals; Hearing Aid Acclimatization in Adults with Hearing Impairment; Development of Malay Word Materials for Auditory-Cognitive Training for Older Adults; Usability and Acceptance of a Computer-Based Auditory Training among Older Adults in Malaysia; Development of Malay Sentence Materials in Speech-In-Noise Training for Adults; Unveiling Difficulties in Performing Prayer Movements among Adults with Disabling Vestibular Disorders; Management of Subjective Tinnitus by Clinical Professionals in Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study; About the editors; About the Center for Children with Chronic Diseases and Down Syndrome Center Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Pediatrics, Mt Scopus Campus, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; About the Audiology and Speech Pathology Programme, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel; Index.