Teaching Methodologies
Continuous evaluation:T/P and PL evaluation, with a minimum score of 9.5 values in each component. PL evaluation with weight of 30% in the final classification, consisting of 2 evaluations with a weight of 50% each (minimum score in each of 9.5 values). The student’s performance throughout the classes and their assiduous presence counts 20% for the final grade of the PL. T/P assessment with a weight of 70% in the final classification, consisting of a study (weight of 30%) and a written frequency (weight of 70%) with a minimum score in each evaluation of 9.5 values. Exam:The final score is the weighted average of the T/P assessment (written exam – 70%) and PL evaluation (30%) and at least 9.5 values in each evaluation; Practical classes,, where it is intended that students acquire the knowledge of the techniques and test methodologies. Resolution of exercises during the classes T/P. Discussion of clinical cases. Possibility of online classes up to 20%.
Learning Results
Understand the importance of the analysis of sensory and conductive mechanisms in performing the ATS – The Importance of masking;
To understand the importance of the auditory process in speech and to identify the various methods of evaluation of speech perception, adjusting them according to parameters such as age, technical and behavioral conditions.
Identify the structures and mechanisms involved in the process of generating Acoustic Otoemissions (OAS).
Identify the various supraliminal methods of identifying the site of the lesion, understanding the advantages and disadvantages of its use.
Relate and understand the changes in the processing of auditory information, locating the possible sites of the lesion through the interpretation of the results obtained in the various tests.
Clinically perceive the relevance of these alterations through the study of clinical cases.
Program
– Masking – The clinical need for masking.
Threshold changes – Phantom curves.
Masking rules for the airway and bone pathway.
– Definition of Acufens. Classification and Etiology of Acufens. Methods of performing acuphenetry according to unilaterality or bilaterality.
– Vocal audiometry: Evaluation objectives and main factors to be taken into account. Clinical Applications.
– Acoustic Otoemissions
– Types of Otoemissions – Evoked and spontaneous. Clinical applications.
– Suppression otoemissions. Clinical importance of the study of the eferensystem. Clinical applications.
– Behavioral assessment of the site of the lesion – Supraliminal tests.
– Tests to evaluate cochlear and retrocochlear function
– Clinical Cases: Analysis of the results obtained in the various tests according to the various pathologies. Discussion of the approach to be carried out in each clinical situation and possible difficulties.
PL Classes: Application of the methodologys of test lectured.
Internship(s)
NAO
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