Phonoaudiological actions in older subjects with hearing aids Acciones fonoaudiológicas en adultos mayores usuarios de audífonos

Abstract

Adults who have lost some extent listening skills are required to use hearing aids, during the proces of adaptation of the prosthesis is necessary assessment and  intervention skills detection, discrimination, identification, recognition and listening. The intervention process also implies that professionals in audiology or  audiologist assure restoration and user habituation to new ways of listening to the user, leading to actions of hearing rehabilitation to adults. This project aimed to  describe the actions, strategies, materials and time reporting professionals in their daily work within the hearing aid fitting process to stimulate the auditory  skills of adult users of air conduction hearing aids and generate an analysis of the actions frequently identified. For this a semi-structured interview was used  individual application. The results show that the practices performed by audiologists for hearing rehabilitation are diverse, some audiologists tend to confuse them  with the actions of the adaptation process of hearing aids and other professionals consider that it is not necessary actions auditory rehabilitation in all cases  adaptation headphones in older people, since it depends on communication skills for the instrument user.