Compulsory
Compulsory
- LEARNING OUTCOMES
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Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
- Know the current trends and the newest developments in the field of Audiologic rehabilitation
- Apply knowledge to provide appropriate hearing devices/technologies (cochlear implants, hearing aids, etc.) to hard-of-hearing people
- Understand and know how lip reading is taking place
- Apply methods of intervention to children and adults with hearing loss
- Synthesize information from history and assessment and form hypotheses regarding the differential diagnosis and prognosis of hearing loss
- Analyze and synthesize ways of providing counseling to people with hearing loss
- Apply communication strategies to hard-of-hearing people
- GENERAL COMPETENCES
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- 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
- SYLLABUS
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The course in Audiologic Rehabilitation deals with managing people with hearing loss and the study of appropriate services (therapeutic plans) to effectively rehabilitate hard-of-hearing people. The course content will discuss the various hearing disorders (degree and type of hearing loss), treatments, and rehabilitation of hearing loss in the whole age range (infants, children, adults) both theoretically and practically.
The course is developed in 13 lessons.
- Hearing aids and cochlear implants
- Rehabilitation of hearing loss with hearing aids
- Speech Recognition and the Hard of Hearing: Assessing Hearing Acuity and Speech Recognition
- Hearing aids and related technology
- Audiologic training
- Speech reading training
- Hearing rehabilitation for deaf adults/elderly and hearing rehabilitation plans
- Auditory intervention for hard-of-hearing infants, toddlers, and school-aged children
- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION
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Activity Semester workload Lectures – Clinical Cases in class 39
Personal study and preparation for the final exam 86
Course total 125 hours. (5 ECTS)
- STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
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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, etc.
- ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Books
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Pindzola, H., Rebekah, Plexico, W. L., & Haynes O. W. (2020). Διάγνωση και Αξιολόγηση στην Λογοπαθολογία. Λευκωσία: Broken Hill, Code in Eudoxus [94643619]
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Tye-Murray, N. (2011). Θεµελιώδεις Αρχές Ακουστικής Αποκατάστασης. Παιδιά, Ενήλικες, και Μέλη της Οικογένειάς τους. Broken Hill Publishers, Code in Eudoxus [13256956]
Related scientific journals
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Ear and Hearing
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Brain and Language
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International Journal of Audiology
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- COURSE WEBSITE (URL)