Audiology and Measurement Home General Info Research Links Sitemap allg. The field of audiology covers all the aspects of normal and impaired hearing. Due to the manifold mechanisms involved in hearing, audiology is a highly interdisciplinary field of work. Biologists, biochemists, physicians, physicists, psychologists and engineers of acoustical, mechanical and electrical institutes contribute to audiological research.
Audiology is also an occupational field.
Or he has to supply hearing-impaired subjects with an appropriate hearing aid. This includes selecting and individually fitting the hearing aids. In Germany between ten and twelve million people suffer from a deteriorated communication via the auditory channel. Thus industry needs engineers with a broad knowledge of technical audiology. One of the main goals is to improve our functional understanding of the hearing organ and the processes that finally produce hearing perceptions.