Principles of Audiology

Catalog description

This course will provide an overview of the discipline of Audiology designed to introduce students in the Audiology and Speech -Language Pathology programs to the areas of educational, rehabilitative, and diagnostic audiology. The course presents the theore tical and practical aspects of basic diagnostic audiological testing and how to relate these procedures to the structure and function of the auditory system. Basic audiologic procedures include pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry and middle ear measurements. Discussions of the relevance of each procedure in diagnostic disorders of the auditory mechanism will be conducted. Lectures, readings, group discussions, collaborative learning, and case studies are some of the instructional strategies that will be used in this course.