Professional Communication in Audiology Paperback / softback

Professional Communication in Audiology is designed to provide students of audiology and practicing clinicians with a global framework for understanding the role of communication in audiologic practice, as well as practical strategies for implementation of communication principles in a clinical setting. The introduction to the text describes the importance of communication skills to audiologic practice.

This section highlights important aspects of communicating in a clinical setting, including forces affecting reporting guidelines, privacy considerations, and the use of electronic medical records.

The next section provides readers with fundamental principles that provide a framework for critically thinking about communication.

These universal principles can be applied as a model to all areas of clinical communication.

The text then leads the readers through application of these principles in the two most common methods of clinical communication: talking and writing.

These skills are discussed specifically in relation to clinical audiologic practice, in the realms of both diagnostic and audiologic intervention paradigms.

Examples reflective of real-world encounters are provided.The text also provides abundant examples of audiologic reports that can be utilized as templates in audiologic practice.