ADVANCED AUDIOLOGY FOR THE SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST

Catalog description

The purposes of Advanced Audiology for Speech-Language Pathologists are to ensure all graduate candidates possess fundamental knowledge in the area of audiology and aural rehabilitation. Candidates will competently complete basic audiological screening, and be competent in reading audiological evaluations, understanding and discussing types of hearing loss, and amplification. Instruction will introduce auditory skills, language development for children who are Deaf/hard-of-hearing, and aural rehabilitation programs for children and adults. Topics related to hearing loss including educational considerations and the Deaf culture will be covered. The course will also provide hands-on experiences with audiology-related and aural rehabilitation tasks a speech-language pathologist will encounter in a real-life work setting. These practical experiences will prepare students for encounters they will have in any work setting as a speech-language pathologist.