Overview
Description
An overview of the effects of hearing loss and communication and current methods for management of patients with hearing loss.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Core
CO9
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate knowledge of using modern diagnostic technology to conduct and interpret behavioral and/or electrophysiological methods to assess the vestibular system.
- explain how audiology as a science assesses how hearing loss affects societal issues, including communication, educational, vocational, social, economic, and psychological functioning.
- explain the development and use of assistive technology in the field of audiology, including technological advancements in audiological testing the evaluation, selection, verification and dispensing of hearing aids, BAHA, cochlear implants, and other assistive technology, and consider the associated costs and insurance coverage of such technology.
- demonstrate knowledge of treatment and management of tinnitus using modern technology.
- articulate the ways in which the science behind hearing technology is able to transform members of society.
- apply knowledge of audiology as a science and the technological advancements in the field to the treatment and rehabilitation of persons with hearing loss or other auditory disorders.