Learning objectives
The course aims to enable students to know and understand the discipline, also in order to use these knowledge and understanding in identifying the patient's problems related to the condition of a person suffering from a disease and to prepare an appropriate care plan
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The students at the end of the course will demonstrate knowledge and understanding about:
Hearing aids fitting.
Electro-acoustic measures.
Diseases- disability- auditory handicaps: ICDH definition and classification.
Rehabiliative audiology: Prescription, hearing aids tests.
Measures instrumentation in electronic field and calibration techniques.
Normative in acoustic field and principles of measure technique in acoustics.
Prerequisites
Audioprotesi I e II examination passed
Course unit content
The lessons cover topics such as:
Impairment-disability-auditory handicap.
Detection, discrimination, identification, recognition and understanding.
Language acquisition and consequences of the lack of acoustic information in children.
Etiopathogenesis of hearing loss in the pediatric age.
Pre-lingual and post-lingual deafness: early diagnosis.
Instrumental diagnosis in communicative disorders.
Full programme
Hearing - Auditory perception- perceptual skills.
The perception of the word.
Impairment-disability-auditory handicap.
Detection, discrimination, identification, recognition and understanding.
Language acquisition and consequences of the lack of acoustic information in children.
Etiopathogenesis of hearing loss in the pediatric age.
Instrumental diagnosis in communicative disorders.
Bibliography
AUDIOLOGIA E FONIATRIA – Edizioni Minerva Medica
Autori: Oskar Schindler, Roberto Albera.
AUDIOLOGIA PROTESICA
AMBROSETTI UMBERTO; DI BERARDINO FEDERICA; DEL BO LUCA
Edizioni Minerva Medica
Essentials of Audiology
Stanley A. Gelfand, Lauren Calandruccio.
THIEME Edition: 5 2023
ISBN: 9781684203987
Language of text: English
Teaching methods
Class lessons: the program themes will be discussed with the aid of slides. The proposed topics will be the subject of collective discussion and study on the basis of ideas and any questions raised during the lessons themselves.
Assessment methods and criteria
The achievement of the goals of the course is verified by an oral exam.
Answering questions about the contents of the course, the student will demonstrate whether he/she has achieved the goals of knowledge and understanding of the contents and the ability to apply the acquired knowledge.
Other information
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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
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