Audiology Short Courses

This unit will provide you with in-depth systematic knowledge and comprehensive understanding about behavioural and electrophysiological auditory assessment for the paediatric population from newborns to the age of transition to adult services.

The unit aims to: enable you to analyse and synthesise your understanding of knowledge and perform hearing assessment of paediatric patients demonstrating the attitudes and behaviours necessary for the role of a audiology professional within a paediatric patient focused service and in particular you will able to appropriately modify behavioural and electrophysiological auditory assessment to the needs of the patient and test battery required.

• Webinars
• Directed and self-directed reading
• Online case studies
• Discussion-based learning: online discussion boards and tutorials
• Enquiry-based learning: online small scale investigations
• Experience-based learning: Sharing the perspectives of those with lived experience  

• Demonstrate knowledge with behavioural hearing assessment to children at the full range of developmental stages  
• Demonstrate knowledge of techniques / methodologies applicable to perform electrophysiological audiological investigations in paediatric patients presenting in a range of audiological settings  
• Demonstrate knowledge of the range of assessments and which are suitable to the demands of the clinical question being asked  
• Demonstrate knowledge of communication and counselling to explain the procedures, outcomes and limitations of a range of audiology assessments  
• Show knowledge of how the outcomes and limitations of the subjective and objective hearing assessments affect hearing aid prescribing and other rehabilitative approaches  

• Critically evaluate and independently apply your knowledge with respect to quality assessment of test outcomes  
• Manage the ethical dilemmas of testing and consent and work pro-actively with others to formulate solutions  
• Critically reflect on the complexity of social and psychological impacts on individual engagement with health providers  
• Critically evaluate the research literature with respect to emerging hearing assessment methods  

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of current research and its application to the performance of a range of technical skills.
• Critically reflect and apply in practice a range of clinical and communication skills to advise and communicate effectively with patients, their families, carers and other healthcare professionals.
• Demonstrate practical skills in modifying behaviourals and electrophysiological hearing assessments to optimise testing in challenging test conditions.
• Engage with patients and other members of the multi-disciplinary team to select the most appropriate hearing assessment battery to best meet their needs in all paediatric patient groups.

• Critically reflect on your own response to both normal and complex situations within the limits of professional competence referring as appropriate to senior staff and will  
• Recognise the importance of effective multidisciplinary team input to evaluating the validity of hearing assessment within the context of behavioural observation.  
• Recognise that urgent medical treatment may be required and refer appropriately  
• Appreciate the value of listening empathetically and positively to the problems and fears of the patient, families and carers and respond accordingly.  
• Be committed to and support continuous improvement of diagnostic services, with particular reference to auditing practice, evidence based practice, innovation, new and improved technologies.  
• Critically reflect on your own response to both normal and complex situations within the limits of professional competence referring as appropriate to senior staff  
• Take into account social, cultural and ethical boundaries, making alternative arrangements where necessary.   

Written feedback. 

• Clarke, R. 2008. Part 12: Paediatric otorhinolaryngology. In: Gleeson, M. et al. Scott-Brown’s Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (Vol. 1). 7th ed. London: Hodder Arnold.  

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