Learning objectives
Impairment – disability – auditory handicap: definition and classification according to the ICDH. Prosthetic and rehabilitative audiometry: prescription, testing of prosthetic devices.
Prerequisites
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The student must have sat the examinations of the Integrated Course of Audio Prosthesis Techniques I and II.
Course unit content
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Verbal-acoustic communication. <br />
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Hearing capacity Auditory perception Perceptual skills. <br />
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The perception of the word. <br />
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Concepts of acoustic and perceptual phonetics. <br />
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Impairment – disability – auditory handicap. <br />
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Verbal retention, discrimination, identification, recognition and comprehension. <br />
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Language acquisition and the consequences of the lack of acoustic information in the child. <br />
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Pre- and post-lingual deafness: early diagnosis. <br />
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Instrumental diagnosis in communication diseases.<! /DIV> <br />
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How to train the hearing. <br />
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Prosthetic and rehabilitative intervention in deafness. <br />
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The Cochlear Implant. <br />
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Logopedic rehabilitation in pediatric deafness. <br />
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Logopedic rehabilitation in adult deafness and presbyacusis. <br />
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Acoustic training – rehabilitation of comprehension and verbal production. <br />
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Phonation and word articulation re-training. <br />
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Morphological restructuring – Sentence syntax.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Oskar Schindler, Roberto Alberga - AUDIOLOGIA E FONIATRIA ? Edizione Minerva Medica
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Assessment methods and criteria
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