Early Detection and Intervention in Audiology

Katijah Khoza-Shangase is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Amisha Kanji is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Rachael Beswick is the director of Queensland's newborn hearing screening programme, Healthy Hearing. She completed her Bachelor of Speech Pathology, Master's in Audiological Studies, and PhD at the University of Queensland, and recently completed her MBA at the Queensland University of Technology. Juan Bornman is a professor and director of the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication at the University of Pretoria. Aisha Casoojee is a lecturer in the Speech Therapy and Audiology Department in the School of Human and Community Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Rudo Chiwutsi is the current administrator in the Audiology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Carlie J Driscoll is an associate professor in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. Jane Fitzgibbons is a senior audiologist with the Healthy Hearing Program in Queensland, Australia, and co-ordinates a diagnostic tele-audiology service for infants referred from newborn hearing screening in regional and remote parts of Queensland. Ntsako P Maluleke is an audiologist and lecturer in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Ga-Rankuwa, Pretoria. Nomfundo Moroe is a senior lecturer and current head of Discipline (Audiology) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Alida Naudé is a corporate training audiologist and is a junior research fellow at the University of Pretoria. Luisa Petrocchi-Bartal has lectured and supervised students in paediatric audiology for the past 10 years and is a current PhD fellow (Audiology) in early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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Section One: Early Detection of Hearing Impairment
Chapter 1 A Paradigm Shift in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention in South Africa - Amisha Kanji and Katijah Khoza-Shangase
Chapter 2 Exploring Early Detection of Hearing Impairment in Sub-Saharan Africa - Amisha Kanji
Chapter 3 Approaches to Early Detection of Hearing Impairment in Low and Middle-Income Countries - Amisha Kanji
Chapter 4 Implementing Early Hearing Detection in the South African Health Care Context - Luisa Petrocchi-Bartal, Katijah Khoza-Shangase and Amisha Kanji
Chapter 5 Confronting Realities to Early Hearing Detection in South Africa - Katijah Khoza-Shangase
Chapter 6 Contextualisation of Risk Factors for Hearing Impairment - Jane Fitzgibbons, Rachael Beswick and Carlie Driscoll
Section Two: Early Intervention for Hearing Impairment
Chapter 7 Approaches to Early Intervention for Hearing Impairment - Amisha Kanji and Aisha Casoojee
Chapter 8 Models of Care in Early Intervention for Children with Hearing Impairment - Amisha Kanji
Chapter 9 Continuity of Care at School for the Hearing-Impaired Child - Katijah Khoza-Shangase
SECTION THREE: COMPLEXITIES OF EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION
Chapter 10 Sensory Impairments in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention - Nomfundo F. Moroe
Chapter 11 Family-Centred Early Hearing Detection and Intervention - Ntsako Precious Maluleke, Rudo Chiwutsi and Katijah Khoza-Shangase
Chapter 12 HIV/AIDS and the Burden of Disease in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention - Katijah Khoza-Shangase
Chapter 13 Ethical Considerations and Tele-Audiology in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention - Alida Naudé and Juan Bornman
Chapter 14 Best Practice in South Africa for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention - Katijah Khoza-Shangase and Amisha Kanji
Contributors
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