Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Persons With Hearing Impairments - rehabilitationġ635500737 (alkaline paper) Note: Revised edition of: Foundations of aural rehabilitation : children, adults, and their family members / Nancy Tye-Murray.Persons With Hearing Impairments - psychology.Correction of Hearing Impairment - methods.Hearing impaired children - Rehabilitation.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 acquisition"-Publisher's description Subject(s): Learning Outcomes: As a result of this activity, the participant will be able to (1) identify the range of features in auditory training programs for computers and for smartphone technology and (2) describe methods of using auditory training throughout the rehabilitation process. 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. The text offers creative coverage of theory, clinical practice, and research-based approaches for identifying, diagnosing, and treating hearing and communication-based disorders. The current article discusses assertiveness training, a once highly popular area of investigation that has been neglected in recent years by the field of psychotherapy. Summary: "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. Contents: Assessing hearing acuity and speech recognition - Listening devices and related technology - Auditory-only speech perception and auditory training - Audiovisual speech perception and speechreading training - Communication strategies and conversational styles - Assessment of conversational fluency and communication difficulties - Communication strategies training - Counseling, psychosocial support, and assertiveness training - Adults - Older adults - Detection and confirmation of hearing loss in children - Infants and toddlers - School-age children - Speech, language, and literacy. Aural rehabilitation (AR) emerged as a result of World War II for the purpose of minimizing or lessening the negative effects of hearing loss on communication, and continues to be an important supplement to hearing aid and cochlear implant use.