This updated third edition continues to have widespread appeal to professionals worldwide by focusing on the most important practical clinical aspects of providing services to children and adults who are hearing impaired. In addition to the expertise of Dr. Hull, an array of 18 other outstanding professionals from diverse fields contribute a wealth of knowledge to this fine volume. Special features: explores rehabilitation, the idea of hearing handicap, a psychosocial and economic profile of the hearing impaired and deaf, and hearing aids and amplification systems, focuses on the hearing impaired child, and discusses family counseling, amplification, and hearing, language, speech, and educational skill development of children, discusses improving communication for adults with hearing impairment, examining the history of aural rehabilitation, trends in counseling, considerations on hearing aids and assistive listening devices, and speech conservation, includes a special section on issues of hearing with older adults, and examines the impact of hearing loss on quality of life, special tactics for counseling, the use of hearing aids, hearing loss and visual/multiple impairments, and programs in health care facilities.