Educational Audiology & Aural Rehabilitation for the SLP

Catalog description

This course will provide an overview of children with hearing loss though the education process from birth through age 21 (IDEA Part C - IDEA Part B). Basic introduction to hearing loss, auditory prosthetic devices, hearing assistive technologies (HATS), and classroom acoustics will be provided. An emphasis is placed on educating diverse learners with hearing loss through interprofessional collaboration, parent collaboration, IEP meetings, classroom management, individual or group speech- language pathology therapy, and desired language modality options/outcomes. Prerequisite: 638.