Hearing Aids: A Manual for Clinicians |
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ability acoustic addition adjustment allows amplification assessment assistive audiologist audiometry auditory average bands battery benefit better binaural bone conduction chapter circuit clinician comfortable communication compression dB dB dB HTL deafness determine devices difference difficulty discrimination dispenser ear canal earmold effect environments evaluation fitting frequency function gain hearing aid hearing impaired hearing instrument hearing loss high-frequency HTL HTL important improvement increase individual input insertion intensity less limited listening loudness measurements ment method microphone noise normal obtained occurs output patient perception performance person practice presented problem procedures programmable range ratio receiver recognition reduced reference response scores selection sensorineural shows signal sound sound pressure speech standard style subjective telephone threshold tion tone tubing turn unaided understanding users waves wearing