This is the report of the Inter-Society Working Group on Hearing Disability, which was founded in 1986 and completed its work in 1991. The report proposes a method for the quantification of hearing disability resulting from hearing impairment for the purposes of description and compensation, with particular reference to noise-induced hearing deficit. The book will be of interest to medical specialists concerned with the assessment of hearing disability as well as to legal professionals dealing with compensation claims in this area and to those with an academic interest in disability assessment.
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This is the report of the Inter-Society Working Group on Hearing Disability, which was founded in 1986 and completed its work in 1991. The report proposes a method for the quantification of hearing disability resulting from hearing impairment for the purposes of description and compensation, with particular reference to noise-induced hearing deficit. The book will be of interest to medical specialists concerned with the assessment of hearing disability as well as to legal professionals dealing with compensation claims in this area and to those with an academic interest in disability assessment.
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In 1981, a member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists (BAOL) wrote to the Council of the BAOL pointing out the multiplicity of, and conflict between, the various published recommendations on assessment of hearing disability for compensation purposes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
audiometric surrogate, notional disability, cortical electric response audiometry, audiometric descriptors, binaural sensitivity, attributable disability, hearing threshold levels, standard reference zero, otologically normal persons, speech recognition score, bone vibrator, mechanical coupler, percentage disability, faculty loss, hearing disability, worse ear, median person, constitutional components, artificial ear, occupational hearing loss, speech audiometry, signal presentation, given listener, acoustic coupler, chapter recommendations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In 1981, a member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists (BAOL) wrote to the Council of the BAOL pointing out the multiplicity of, and conflict between, the various published recommendations on assessment of hearing disability for compensation purposes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
audiometric surrogate, notional disability, cortical electric response audiometry, audiometric descriptors, binaural sensitivity, attributable disability, hearing threshold levels, standard reference zero, otologically normal persons, speech recognition score, bone vibrator, mechanical coupler, percentage disability, faculty loss, hearing disability, worse ear, median person, constitutional components, artificial ear, occupational hearing loss, speech audiometry, signal presentation, given listener, acoustic coupler, chapter recommendations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Study of Hearing, British Society of Audiology New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Hunter's Diseases of Occupations by Peter J. Baxter in Back Matter
- A Textbook of Audiological Medicine: Clinical Aspects of Hearing and Balance by Linda Luxon in Back Matter
- Audiology and Audiological Medicine (Oxford medical publications) by H. A. Beagley in Back Matter
- Principles of Hearing Aid Audiology by Maryanne Tate Maltby in Back Matter
- Advances in Noise Research: Protection Against Noise (Advances In Noise Research (Whurr)) (v. 2) by Deepak Prasher on page 42
- Advances in Noise Research: Biological Effects of Noise (Advances In Noise Research (Whurr)) by Deepak Prasher on page 111
- Self-Assessment of Hearing and Related Function by William Noble in Back Matter
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