Journal Reviews

Importance of face-to-face communication in clinical practice

1 November 2017 | | audiology, conversation analysis, face-to-face communication, gaze, hearing rehabilitation, other-initiated repair

Breakdowns in communication with patients who have difficulty in understanding, speaking or hearing may occur during a consultation. The authors of this paper studied the hearing-related breakdowns in communication especially amongst older adults with hearing impairment (HI) using conversational analysis...