Audiology Short Courses

The unit provides knowledge and understanding of the range of aspects of paediatric audiology, taking into account the wider developmental, psychosocial and medical context.

Provide knowledge and understanding of paediatric audiology in order to meet the requirements for employment in hearing health care service or research.

Content:

• Epidemiology, aetiology and risk factors
• Screening and surveillance
• Embryology of the auditory system
• Maturation of auditory system and child development
• History taking
• Behavioural assessment techniques
• Objective assessment techniques
• Otitis Media with Effusion
• Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder
• Genetics
• Deaf children with special needs
• Multi-agency approaches to management of deaf children
• Hearing instruments for children
• Impact of deafness on the family
• Child protection and safeguarding

• Lectures, workshops, tutorials
• Self-directed study
• Problem-solving sessions
• Case studies
• Discussion
• Report and essay writing
• Directed and related reading
• Private study laboratory sessions.

• Be able to critically evaluate public health issues and initiatives with regard to hearing in children.
• Understand the basis of maturational and developmental appropriateness of different behavioural and objective techniques to assess hearing in children.
• Be able to critically evaluate diagnostic and management options of specific conditions (eg OME, ANSD, APD).
• Be able to critically evaluate the principles of the selection, prescription, verification, evaluation and monitoring of amplification for children.
• Contextualise childhood hearing loss.

• Be able to critically appraise scientific literature.
• Be able to critically analyse and objectively interpret information/data.

• Present information clearly in the form of verbal and written reports.
• Communicate complex ideas and arguments in a clear and concise and effective manner.
• Work effectively as an individual or part of a team.
• Use conventional and electronic resources to collect, select and organise complex scientific information

• Effectively utilise a range of information sources including information technology / health informatics.
• Demonstrate capacity for self-learning and independent thinking and to utilise problem solving skills.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills (verbal and written).
• Be able to set priorities and link these with effective time management.
• Be able to critically evaluate their personal performance both as an individual and within a team.
• Demonstrate skills in working

Group work: Case Study (pass/fail)
2,000-word assignment - 100%

Written feedback

• Howard, J. (2017) Mary D. Sheridan's Play in Early Childhood: From Birth to Six Years. 4th edn. London: Routlege. ISBN: 9781138655911
• McCormick, B. (2004). Paediatric Audiology 0-5 Years. 3rd edn. London: Whurr. ISBN: 1861562179
• Northern, JL, Downs M. (2013). Hearing in Children. 6th edn. San Diego: Plural Publishing Inc. ISBN: 159756392