Clinical Practicum in Audiology

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For this clinical practicum, students conduct audiologic screening both on campus at the Pace University Speech and Hearing Clinic and at a residential foster care facility for adolescent girls located in lower Manhattan. This course begins with basic skill development (i.e., earphone and bone conduction vibrator placement, biologic calibration of instrumentation, instrumentation use) and progress to implementation of audiometric sweep screening according to ASHA guidelines and basic audiologic diagnostic evaluations - pure-tone (air and bone conduction) and speech audiometry. Students apply theories learned in coursework to clinical work. Specifically, students begin with interpretation of elementary audiograms and progress to more complex audiograms. In addition, students are introduced to audiologic measures used in more advanced diagostic assessment procedures.