An overview of hearing aid fitting is presented in this text, comparing and contrasting the many types of compression and describing their clinical applications. Included is a short synopsis of outer and inner hair cell function, as it relates to an increasingly common type of compression.
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Compression for Clinicians Summary
Compression for Clinicians by Theodore H. Venema
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Table of Contents
The cochlea, hair cells and compression; inner and outer hair cells; damaged hair cells and presbycusis; why so many different hearing aid fitting methods?; lenses for the eye versus hearing aids for the ear; the evolution of hearing aid fitting methods; loudness growth and fitting considerations; loudness growth; compression and normal loudness growth; suprathreshold fitting methods, compression and loudness growth; the many faces of compression; a word about input/output graphs; input compression versus output compression; compression controls - conventional versus Tk; output limiting compression versus wide dynamic range compression; BILL, TILL, and multi-channel WDRC hearing aids; dynamic aspects of compression; interaction between static and dynamic aspects of compression; programmable and digital hearing aids; expanding on compression; hearing aids, hair cells and the travelling wave revisited; common clinical combinations of compression; an example of multi-channel WDRC - Unitron's sound FX; the clinical Spectrum of hearing aids; fitting hearing aids - the art and the science.
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