Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:

• Understand the role of hearing in the development of speech, language, and communication
• Know the anatomy of the ear (external, middle, inner), and hearing disorders
• Know the rehabilitation of patients with hearing disorders, using hearing aid technology and cochlear implants and the current trends in the field of clinical audiology
• Apply and analyze techniques used by an audiologist to conduct a hearing test (on healthy people and people with hearing disorders)
• Use the audiometer & the audiological chamber, and at the same time, perform a hearing test (bone and air) on their fellow students
• Combine information to be able to identify the type of hearing impairment the patient may have
• Synthesize information from the patient's history and make assumptions regarding the differential diagnosis
• Assess outer/middle/inner ear disorders
• Evaluate the profession of audiologist as well as how an audiologist detects, diagnoses (evaluates), and treats hearing loss

• Adaptation to new situations
• Application of knowledge in practice
• Decision making
• Efficient search, analysis, and synthesis of data and information using the essential technologies
• Exercise criticism and self-criticism
• Independent Assignment
• Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking

The course provides a general overview of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and their concepts. Its contents include identifying, categorizing, and distinguishing the characteristics of AAC systems, their analysis, and types. Also, the predictors of use, the assessment, and the intervention process in the application of AAC in populations of children and adults with communication, sensory, and motor disorders are presented.

The course is developed in 13 sections:

• Normal development course of communication

• Definition of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

• AAC systems

• Types of Technology (Low – Medium – High)

• Predictors of AAC use

• AAC user categories of children and adults

• Communication, Sensory and Motor Disorders and AAC

• Methods of Intervention and representation of information depending on the disorder and the population

Final exam at the end of the semester (100% of the final grade) that will include short-answers and/or closed-ended (e.g., multiple-choice) questions, assessment of audiograms, etc.

Books

• Seikel, J. A. (2019). Ανατομία και φυσιολογία ομιλίας, λόγου και ακοής. Αθήνα: Κωνσταντάρας, Code in Eudoxus [86193750]

• Παπαφράγκος, Κ. (2001). Ακοολογία. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Παρισιάνου, Code in Eudoxus [41164]

• Ηλιάδης, Θ., Κεκές, Γ., & Παπαδέας, Ε. (2010). Κλινική ακοολογία. Πάτρα: Γκότσης, Code in Eudoxus [13255861]

• Behrbohm, H., Kaschke, O., Nawka, T., & Swift, A. (2018). Παθήσεις ωτός, ρινός και λάρυγγα με χειρουργική κεφαλής και τραχήλου. Αθήνα: Κωνσταντάρας, Code in Eudoxus [33156134]

Related scientific journals

• Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research

• International Journal of Audiology

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