**Meet the editor**

Dr Sadaf Naz obtained her PhD from University of the Punjab, Lahore, where she initiated one of the first studies on determining the genetic underpinnings of hearing loss in Pakistan. After completing different postdoctoral research projects at National Institute on Deafness and other Communication, Disorders, National Institutes of Health, USA, she attained a faculty position at School of

Biological Sciences at University of the Punjab, Lahore. Dr. Naz's laboratory studies molecular genetics of different human disorders and the major focus of her research group is identification of genes involved in moderate to severe deafness.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Josefina Gutierrez

Takahiro Tamesue

Chapter 1 **Technology for Hearing Evaluation 3** 

**for Hearing Screening 25** 

Chapter 3 **A Prediction Method for Speech Audibility** 

Gleich Otto and Strutz Jürgen

Chapter 5 **Families of Children with Hearing Loss** 

Bolsoni-Silva Alessandra Turini and Rodrigues Olga Maria Piazentin Rolim

Chapter 7 **Hearing Loss in Minor Head Injury 135**  Lingamdenne Paul Emerson

**Part 2 Childhood Hearing Loss 93** 

Zerrin Turan

**Part 3 Injuries & Traumas 133** 

Chapter 2 **Contralateral Suppression of Otoacoustic Emissions:** 

**Taking Account of Hearing Loss Due to Aging Under Meaningless Noise 51** 

Chapter 4 **The Mongolian Gerbil as a Model for the Analysis of** 

**and Parental Educational Practices 95** 

Chapter 6 **Early Intervention with Children Who Have a Hearing Loss: Role of the Professional and Parent Participation 117** 

**Working Towards a Simple Objective Frequency Specific Test** 

Nikolaus E. Wolter, Robert V. Harrison and Adrian L. James

**Peripheral and Central Age-Dependent Hearing Loss 67** 

**Part 1 Hearing 1** 
