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Ancillary Aids for the Hearing Impaired

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Adult Aural Rehabilitation

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Many of the problems that confront hearing-impaired persons in everyday life cannot be solved merely by the fitting of appropriate hearing aids and providing counselling in their use. There remain many situations where the hearing aid provides only limited assistance and the hearing-impaired person is placed at a serious disadvantage. Persons with acquired hearing losses quite often find themselves avoiding situations that were previously of great importance to them. The effects of distance, noise and reverberation either singly or in combination conspire to greatly lower the ability of the hearing impaired to adequately cope in such settings as restaurants, churches and theatres.

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    Denzil N. Brooks PhD (Audiological Scientist) (Audiological Scientist)

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Plant, G. (1989). Ancillary Aids for the Hearing Impaired. In: Brooks, D.N. (eds) Adult Aural Rehabilitation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3452-9_12

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