As Rosenberg (1972) pointed out in Katz's Handbook of Clinical Audiology. the first, and possibly the most valuable, test of all is the case history. In the practice of aural medicine, questionnaires can be of considerable value, as in medicine in general (Bennett and Ritchie, 1975). In aural medicine, questionnaires may be particularly valuable for the assessment of the disability and handicap...

In this chapter we review the state-of-the-art in non-visual accessibility of mathematics. Making mathematics accessible is a significant challenge, due to its 2dimensional, spatial nature and the inherently linear nature of speech and Braille displays. The relative arrangement of various mathematical symbols in the 2-dimensional print space is extensively exploited by standard mathematical not...

Otoscopic examination and cytology of the equine ear would be beneficial in diseases such as head trauma, headshaking, otitis externa secondary to otitis media, vestibular disease, aural neoplasia and aural pruritus secondary to parasites. In practice, otic examinations of horses are rarely done due to the perceived difficulty in visualizing the equine external ear canal and tympanic membrane, ...

Acute mastoiditis in the newborn is a very rare disease. Herein we report a case of a 28-day-old child with right aural atresia and ipsilateral mastoiditis requiring mastoidectomy. To our knowledge, this is the youngest case reported in the literature. Issues on diagnosis and management of mastoiditis in cases of aural atresia are further discussed. Based on our experience and on previous repor...

The purpose of this paper was to present estimates of costs and effects of selected interventions for hearing impairment in Africa and Asia. The method used mathematical simulation models on the basis of WHO burden of disease information, and WHO-CHOICE costing databases. Findings showed that in both regions, screening strategies for hearing impairment and delivery of hearing aids cost between ...

OBJECTIVES Otitis media (OM) is an infectious disease that affects all age brackets. Aural discharge is a typical symptom, occurring in all subtypes of OM. We have compared the identity and antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria isolated from aural discharges of adults and children with various types of OM, including acute OM (AOM), OM with effusion (OME), chronic OM (COM), and cholesteatomatous OM...

Background in music analysis. Music analysts traditionally take the score as their subject matter but have more recently begun studying music ‘as performance’. This development poses new challenges for analysts exploring alternative texts to the notated score. An ethnographic approach involving the composer and performers brings more voices into play than has been the case for traditional music...