AUDIOLOGY
cod. 15924

Academic year 2012/13
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Audiologia (MED/32)
Field
Scienze della logopedia
Type of training activity
Characterising
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: LOGOPEDICS I

Learning objectives

Diagnosis and clinics of peripheral vestibular diseases:
- labyrinthitis
- Meniere disease
- cupulolithiasis
- vestibular neuronitis
- vertigo in central nervous system diseases
- vertigo in the elderly
- rehabilitative therapy
- hearing aids fitting
- electro-acoustic measures

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The lingual-acoustic communication.
Hearing - Auditory perception- perceptual skills.
The perception of the word.
Fundamentals of acousticand perceptual phonetics.
Impairment-disability-auditory handicap. Detection, discrimination, identification, recognition and understanding. Language acquisition and consequences of the lack of acoustic information in children.
Pre-lingual and post-lingual deafness: early diagnosis. Instrumental diagnosis in communicative disorders. Hearing education. Deafness rehabilitation with hearing aids. Cochlear implantation. Speech therapy in childhood deafness. Speech therapy in adult deafness. Acoustic training- rehabilitation of speech comprehension and production. Rehabilitation of speech production and articulation. Restoration of morphology and syntax of sentences.

Full programme

The lingual-acoustic communication.

Hearing - Auditory perception- perceptual skills.

The perception of the word.

Fundamentals of acousticand perceptual phonetics.

Impairment-disability-auditory handicap.

Detection, discrimination, identification, recognition and understanding.

Language acquisition and consequences of the lack of acoustic information in children.

Pre-lingual and post-lingual deafness: early diagnosis.

Instrumental diagnosis in communicative disorders.

Hearing education.

Deafness rehabilitation with hearing aids.

Cochlear implantation.

Speech therapy in childhood deafness.

Speech therapy in adult deafness.

Acoustic training- rehabilitation of speech comprehension and production.

Rehabilitation of speech production and articulation.

Restoration of morphology and syntax of sentences.

Bibliography

AUDIOLOGIA E FONIATRIA – Edizione Minerva Medica
Autori: Oskar Schindler, Roberto Alberga.
MANUALE DI AUDIOLOGIA – M. DEL BO, F.GIACCAI, G. GRISANTI.
MASSON ITALIA EDITORI.

Teaching methods

lectures

Assessment methods and criteria

verbal examination

Other information

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