Community - Based Hearing Rehabilitation of Audiologists - A Survey Study

Biju Jeeva Jeeno, S. A. Ramsankar, Kumaran Thirunavukkarasu

Abstract: The role of audiologists about their involvement and the current practice patterns in the community - based hearing rehabilitation in India currently does not adhere to any systematic protocols or guidelines in this field when it comes to providing rehabilitative services in the rural and outlying areas from all over India. So this survey questionnaire has been developed to obtain an overview and responses from 60 audiologists all across India were collected. Descriptive statistics were applied as the research analysis for this survey. Thus, the findings reveal that there is an average to good positive survey response from the audiologists and the responses for questions have been discussed in this article.

Keywords: Community based rehabilitation, Community based hearing rehabilitation, Audiologists, Survey, India