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"The best-selling textbook, ''Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation: Adults, Children, and their Families, Fifth Edition'', introduces the fundamentals of audiologic rehabilitation and hearing-related speech-language pathology in an easy-to-read, concise resource for the field of communication sciences and disorders. The text offers concrete coverage of theory, clinical practice, and research-based approaches for identifying, diagnosing, and treating hearing and communication-based disorders. The text is separated into three sections for the most comprehensive coverage of each topic: Part 1 describes the components of an aural rehabilitation plan, Part 2 concerns adults and their family members, and Part 3 concerns children and their parents. Important topics throughout include patient-centered services, counseling, selection and fitting of listening devices, conversational fluency and communication strategies training, auditory training, speechreading, and language and speech promotion. New to the Fifth Edition: *Reorganization of chapters to allow a more streamlined presentation of aural rehabilitation for adults *State-of-the-science review of the most current research in auditory training *Updated information and references to reflect emerging trends in speech and language therapy *New larger 8.5"" x 11"" trim size allowing for better display of text and artwork *Improved artwork with updated figures and photographs Key Features: *Chapters begin with Chapter Outlines and end with Key Chapter Points and Terms and Concepts to Remember *Numerous case studies, sidebars, and boxes *Bolded key terms in text with definitions in margins, and a comprehensive end-of-book glossary *Access to a PluralPlus companion website with supplementary resources for instructors and students"

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Nancy Tye-Murray, PhD is a Professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is the principal investigator of grants from the National Institutes of Health, which provide support for her research in audiovisual speech perception and auditory training. She is the CEO of an Internet company, clEAR (customized learning: Exercises for Aural Rehabilitation; that provides auditory brain training to people with hearing loss. She is also the past president of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology, former Hearing Editor for Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research, and former Director of Research at Central Institute for the Deaf.

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