AUDIOLOGY II
cod. 05330

Academic year 2012/13
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Audiologia (MED/32)
Field
Scienze e tecniche audioprotesiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
20 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: HEARING AIDS II

Learning objectives

Knowledge of the main diagnostic methods for infantile deafness

Prerequisites

audioprotesi I exam

Course unit content

Audiometric strategy in infantile deafness

Pediatric audiometry

Audiometric strategy in infantile deafness associated with other disabilities

Prosthetic audiometry

The role of objective audiometry ( ABR; ECoG) in the diagnosis of infantile

Full programme

- Anatomy and physiology of the auditory and vestibular apparatus

- Anatomy of the external ear

- Anatomy of the middle ear

- Anatomy of the inner ear

- Central acoustic pathways of the auditory areas

- Function of the middle ear

- Cochlear dynamics

- Cochlear electrical potentials

- Anatomy and physiology of the vestibular apparatus

Bibliography

Lecture notes;

Manuale di Audiologia Prof. Del Bo

Teaching methods

oral lesson

Assessment methods and criteria

oral exam

Other information

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