J. Katz – Handbook of Clinical Audiology (7th edition)

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For more than 40 years, the Handbook of Clinical Audiology
(HOCA) has maintained an important role in the education
of graduate students in audiology, both in North America
and throughout the world. It also serves as a useful reference
for audiologists, otologists, and speech–language pathologists
who wish to have a comprehensive and practical guide
to the current practices in audiology.
Each edition of the HOCA has been an update of the
previous one, but we have also striven to make the newest
edition better than the one that came before. For this edition,
there are four highly skilled and knowledgeable editors plus
one senior editor. We have worked together to select highly
qualified contributors on topics that are both core and current
for students and professionals in audiology. Online case
studies and references have been added to this edition to
enable the reader to go beyond the basic scope of this book.
THE FOREWORDS
In the previous edition of the Handbook the foreword was
written by Moe Bergman, a distinguished gentleman with
many years of audiology behind him. Moe Bergman, Ed.D.,
was in the very first group of audiologists who began this discipline
more than 70 years ago. Starting prior to World War
II and for decades following, Dr. Bergman was a clinician,
administrator, professor, researcher, and writer, and after he
retired from Hunter College in New York City, he went to
Israel to establish audiology as a profession there. He is considered
as the Father of Audiology in Israel. For many years,
Dr. Bergman has continued to be active as an advisor and an
officer in international professional organizations. His clarity
about the events and developments so many years ago
(see Bergman, 2002) makes him a treasured link to our roots.
This edition is dedicated to Raymond Carhart, “The
Father of Audiology.” We are delighted to have the book’s
dedication and foreword discussing Dr. Carhart; written
by Laura Ann Wilber a former student of his and a distinguished
audiologist in her own right. Dr. Carhart was her
dissertation advisor and she worked with him and Tom Tillman
to develop what later became the NU-6 word recognition
test. When Laura Wilber earned her Ph.D. there were
few women who were educated at that level in audiology
and many people felt that it was a male profession. So Dr.
Carhart’s acceptance of her and clearing a path for her was
especially important.
It is worth noting that Laura Wilber has contributed to
each edition of the Handbook since the first edition in 1972.
She herself was honored by the editors of the HOCA in the
previous edition by dedicating the book to her and to three
other audiologists.
SECTIONS, CHAPTERS, AND
CONTRIBUTORS
The strength of HOCA has always been the knowledge and
expertise of the contributors in the many aspects of audiology.
They have both clinical and research credentials in the
topics they write about and most are also professors who
are proficient in communicating with students. Audiologists
looking down the list of contributors will recognize familiar
and highly respected colleagues. They have contributed
much to the field in the past and now contribute again by
providing important and readable materials for both colleagues
and students. We have made every effort to provide
up-to-date, accurate, and clinically applicable information.
Each of the four main editors of this book has a distinguished
record of teaching, research, writing, and clinical
work. Each one took responsibility for significant portions
of the book. Linda Hood helped to edit the Sixth Edition
and decided to go “another round.” Her chapters deal primarily
with physiological methods for audiologic diagnosis.
Marshall Chasin, our first Canadian editor, edited the chapters
dealing with amplification and other technical aspects.
Kim Tillery edited the chapters dealing with central auditory
processing disorders and shared in the final editing of
all chapters. Kristina English edited the basic chapters and
those dealing with re/habilitation. Jack Katz reviewed all of
the chapters and saw to the overall manuscript issues.
The Handbook is divided into four sections. There are
eight chapters dealing with Introduction, Basic Tests, and
Principles. A chapter that summarizes diagnostic audiology
and brings together the various contributions has been
added in this edition. Other top-notch audiologists wrote
on Puretone Air Conduction, Bone Conduction, and Speech
Audiometry, as well as Masking and Case History.
The second section is made up of 14 chapters dealing
with Physiologic Principles and Measures. This section of
the book includes auditory measures starting with the conductive
mechanism up to the brain and vestibular measures
that assess from the inner ear to the brain. Some chapters
include specialty areas such as intraoperative monitoring
and therapy for vestibular disorders. Some of the most pronounced
advances in recent years have been made in these
areas.
The third section is devoted to a wide variety of Special
Populations. It contains 14 chapters beginning with Newborn
Hearing Screening, Assessment of Hearing Loss in
Children and Educational Audiology and ends with Hearing
Loss in the Elderly, Tinnitus/Hyperacusis, and Tele-Audiology.
Four chapters deal with Central Auditory Processing
Disorders and Central Auditory Functions.

The final section, Management of Hearing Disorders, is
made up of 10 chapters. Five of the chapters deal with hearing
aids and cochlear implants, two focus on management,
and two more are on Room Acoustics and Assistive Technologies
as well as Building a Successful Audiologic Practice.
In addition, for the first time we will have a chapter dealing
with infection control in audiology practice that was written
by A.U. Bankaitis. This important topic relates to all aspects
of audiology that deal with clinical patients and/or research
subjects.
Sadly, during the writing of the chapter on electrocochleography
with Rosamaria Santarelli, contributor Edoardo
Arslan passed away. He was both her co-author and mentor.
NEW FEATURES
Six new chapters have been introduced in the seventh edition.
They are Diagnostic Audiology, The Dizzy Patient and
Vestibular Rehabilitation, Newborn Hearing Screening,
Genetic Hearing Loss, Tele-Audiology, and Infection Control.
At the close of every chapter is a new section called
Food for Thought, which encourages readers to interact
more deeply with the text.
In this edition of this Handbook we have added supplemental
materials (e.g., extended references and case studies) on
thePoint companion website at http://thepoint.lww.com/
Katz7e.
TERMINOLOGY
The following is an explanation of some of the spelling conventions
used in the HOCA and briefly why we chose them.
Further discussion may be found in Chapter 1.
Compound Words
In clinical audiology, as well as in English generally, compound
words (two words written as one) are common. Compound
words are simplifications of words that are frequently
used together. For example, brain and stem are combined in
the term auditory brainstem response. When two words are
frequently used together to express a certain meaning, in time,
they may be connected by a hyphen and eventually joined
together into a single word (base ball, base-ball, baseball).
PURETONE
The terms pure tone and pure-tone are constantly used in
audiology with or without a hyphen. This has encouraged us
to combine them into a compound word, puretone. By choosing
a single word it eliminates the inconstancies that we see
when they are used or misused with or without a hyphen.
SENSORY/NEURAL
On the one hand, while there is good reason to use puretone
as a compound word, on the other hand, it would be beneficial
for the term sensorineural to be separated into sensory
or neural using a slash as we often use for “or” (i.e., sensory/
neural). This makes it clear that the test or result it did not
distinguish sensory from neural. From the term sensorineural
it is often not clear what is intended as many professionals
assume that sensorineural means sensory. This problem
has led to important confusions and errors that can be easily
remedied by the use of sensory/neural if it is unclear which
is indicated (e.g., with no air-bone gap for puretone thresholds
we do not know if it is sensory, neural, or both). If the
specific region is identified (e.g., present Otoacoustic Emissions
but absent Middle Latency Response) we indicate that
it was specifically neural or retrocochlear. If it is both we
state “both sensory and neural” or just “sensory and neural.”
EPILOGUE
We are pleased that the Handbook of Clinical Audiology
(HOCA) is used widely by audiologists around the world.
Interestingly when the HOCA first came out in 1972, we were
living in the Turkish Republic. There the word hoca means a
religious leader or a revered teacher. While HOCA is certainly
not a religious leader, we do hope it will be a revered teacher
for the many students and colleagues that read this book.