Tactile Aids for the Hearing Impaired
Samenvatting
Tactile aids can offer a particularly cost–effective answer to the increasing demand for technical aids for the profoundly and totally deaf. This book covers the design of tactile aids – single and multichannel – and the ways in which they may benefit the hearing impaired.
Authors from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed chapters, and among the topics they cover are: fundamentals of vibrotactile and electrotactile perception; signal processing strategies; tactile coding (including synthetic Tadoma); choice of subjects and subject training; evaluation of tactile aids and comparison with cochlear implants; and communication for the deaf–blind.
The book should provide a useful reference for those who work with the profoundly deaf, students and others with interests in the perception of speech and environmental sound.
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<p>Preface.</p>
<p>List of contributors.</p>
<p>Chapter 1. Perception via the sense of touch (Ronald T. Verrillo and George A. Gescheider).</p>
<p>Chapter 2. Electrical stimulation of the skin (Brian H. Brown and John C. Stevens).</p>
<p>Chapter 3. The design of vibrotactile trasducers (Roger W. Cholewiak and Michael Wollowitz).</p>
<p>Chapter 4. Communication of the acoustic environment via tactile stimuli (Janet M. Weisenberger).</p>
<p>Chapter 5. Signal processing strategies for single–channel systems (Ian R. Summers).</p>
<p>Chapter 6. Signal processing strategies for multichannel systems (James L. Mason and Barrie J. Frost).</p>
<p>Chapter 7. The selection and training of tactile aid users (Geoff Plant).</p>
<p>Chapter 8. The evaluation of tactiles aids (Lynne E. Bernstein).</p>
<p>Chapter 9. The potential benefit and cost–effectiveness of tactile devices in comparison with cochlear implants (Peter J. Blamey and Robert S.C. Cowan).</p>
<p>Chapter 10. Natural methods of tactual communication (Charlotte M. Reed, Nathaniel I. Durlach and Lorraine A. Delhorne).</p>
<p>Chapter 11. A comparative trial of four vibrotactile aids (A. Roger D. Thornton and Andrew J. Phillips).</p>
<p>Index.</p>