Base Knowledge
The student must have knowledge of performing and interpreting the simple tonal audiogram, the vocal audiogram, the tympanogram and otoacoustic emissions.
Teaching Methodologies
Lectures and small group work in the classroom.
Screenings and awareness campaigns in schools and daycare centers.
Learning Results
To acquire an understanding of basic concepts applicable to public health and in promotion of health and possible usage of these concepts for audiology;
To acquire knowledge about audiological screening for different age groups;
Introduction to the study of central auditive processing (community intervention).
Program
Introduction to course subject including dates and methods of evaluation – 2 hours
1. General Concepts – 4 hours
Health
Deficiency
Incapacity
Disadvantage
International Classification of Functionality
2. Audiological testing – 2 hours
– definition of a test
– Test validity and associated concepts
– Prevalence
– Incidence
– False positives
– False negatives
Prevalence in different age groups of:
Auditive deficiencies
Vertigo
Tinnitus
Alterations in central auditive processing
The socio-psychological impact of hearing deficiency, vertigo and tinnitus of various degrees of severity.
– When to screening
– How to organize hearing testing
– Evaluation
3. Neo-natal auditive testing: the situation in Belgium, the U.S. and Portugal – 3 hours
Objective
Techniques utilized
– Acoustic otoemissions
– Automatically evoked potentials
– The professional that should coordinate and perform the exam
ROUTING
Group screening and treatment of child deafness (GRISI)
4. Elementary and pre-school screening (children 3-10) – 3 hours
Objective
Techniques Utilized
– Otoscopy
– Tympanogram
– Possible role of otoacoustic emissions in this type of screening
ROUTING
5. Recognition and treatment of disturbances in central auditive processing in the school environment – 4 hours
6. The role of the audiologist in the school – 1 hour
7. The global health exam -1 hour
8. Youth and young adults – 2 hours
Things that can harm hearing
Mental illness versus mental deficiency
Workers in a noisy environment
Safeguarding Hearing
Norms and Legal Decrees
9. Hearing in the elderly – 2 hours
10. National and International audiological projects – 4 hours
Written Evaluation – 2 hours
Practical Lessons:
Audiology laboratory research and various screenings and awareness campaigns in other schools and daycare centers.
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
PRIMARY:
The student may consult any existing reference in the ESTeSC library, depending on the topic of the research being carried out.
SECONDARY:
Diverse bibliography was referred to and provided by the professor during the classes.