Introduction to Audiology and Aural Rehabilitation

Catalog description

This course is an introduction to the theories and procedures used to identify hearing loss and provide aural rehabilitation to children and adults with hearing loss. Students examine principles and techniques of pure tone and speech audiometry and interpretation of audiograms; review etiologies and considerations for all types and degrees of hearing loss; and explore principles of management of people with hearing loss across the lifespan as well as technological and aural rehabilitation methods available to individuals with hearing loss.