Educational Audiology Handbook, Fourth Edition. This item is unavailable.Educational Audiology Handbook, Fourth Edition

The fourth edition of Educational Audiology Handbook continues to provide essential strategies for collaborating effectively with educators, parents, and other professionals to support students who need audiology services in school settings. This book emphasizes evidence-based practices, ensuring educational audiologists are equipped with the latest research and methodologies to enhance student outcomes. Newly authored by contributors who practice as educational audiologists in local or regional school districts, each chapter emphasizes an integration of real-world experiences and case studies that reflect current challenges and successes in the field. With a focus on practical applications, readers will find assessment, intervention, and program development tools grounded in the latest evidence.

New to the Fourth Edition

• Three new chapters:
• Advocating for Educational Audiology Services
• Remote Service Delivery
• Development and Management of Contracted Educational Audiology Services
• New contributors to introduce fresh perspectives relevant to today’s educational audiology practice
• Updated to reflect current terminology, legislative information, and best practice essentials
• Expanded information and resources related to classroom acoustics and learning environments
• Updated perspectives on topics including auditory processing deficits, hearing technology, out of booth assessment, student wellness and social emotional competence, and the audiologist’s role in supporting the educational goal for students with hearing-related needs

Key Features

• Each chapter introduction includes lists of key terms, key points, and sample questions for instructors, students, and practicing educational audiologists
• Chapters include updated list of selected readings and resources
• Extensive appendices with customizable handouts, forms, and protocols ready for local use
• A PluralPlus companion website with ancillary resources

Cheryl DeConde Johnson, EdD, has an extensive history of advocacy for children and youth who are deaf and hard of hearing and their families. Through her many roles as an educational audiologist, early intervention specialist, deaf and hard of hearing program administrator, deaf education and audiology consultant with the Colorado Department of Education, author, and university instructor, she continues to provide consultation, program evaluation, and training globally through her practice, the ADE-vantage (Audiology-Deaf Education vantage consulting). Cheryl is also a co-founder of Hands & Voices. Cheryl now shares her time between Leadville, Colorado, and Green Valley, Arizona.

Jane B. Seaton, MS, CCC-A/SLP, consultant in audiology and communication disorders, has spent more than 40 years working with families and children with significant hearing and listening challenges. She developed and administered a model regional educational program for deaf and hard of hearing students and has professional experience in the field of pediatric and educational audiology in university, pubic health, hospital, and public school settings. Ms. Seaton received an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and continued her post-graduate education at the Universities of Akron, Washington, and Georgia. She has been an invited speaker and writer in the field of educational audiology and served as an early intervention specialist and stakeholder for Georgia’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program for 25 years.