BSc Healthcare Science (Audiology)

This course encourages students to reflect on psychological and social aspect of hearing loss, how to provide patient-centred care, and the importance of self-awareness and reflective practice as key skills in becoming an audiologist  

• Explore self-awareness as a pre-requisite to reflective practice
• Consider the sense of hearing and how it shapes and informs the world we live in
• Explore the world of Deaf/deaf individual
• Provide an introduction to aural rehabilitation from a service users perspective  

• Self–awareness and reflective practice
• Improving self-awareness on personal and professional level for quality patient care and professional growth  
• Introduction to reflective practice and how to do  this
• Models of disability
• Deaf/deaf Culture
• Personal experience of hearing and sensory perception
• Differing audiology service needs of a hearing impaired individual

Blended approach: Tutorials, class discussion, directed and self-directed study. The students are encouraged to keep a reflective journal of the sessions

• Discuss the importance, of self-awareness, unconscious bias, emotional intelligence and resilience
• Discuss the importance of reflective learning, self-reflection and how these will be important in clinical practice
• Explain the WHO classification system to describe the needs of deaf/Deaf individual
• Discuss the importance of the concepts of effective communication and patient-centred care
• Describe the complexities and challenges of living with hearing loss/Deafness
• Explore hearing and sensory perception from a personal perspective
• Describe the differing audiology service needs of a hearing impaired individual, and the services such a service provides

• Develop the ability to think critically and question received information
• Enhancement of reflective, evaluative and interpretive skills
• Develop team-working skills  

• Enhancement of reflective learning, self -awareness, self- reflection and the ability to write reflectively  

• Academic reading
• Use of library
• Development of the ability to express issues clearly and succinctly 

Summative Assessment: Creative Portfolio of learning/Reflection (2000 words) - 100%

Formative assessment - practical work and debates on an individual and group basis; feedback on presentation and portfolio of learning.

• British Society of Audiology: 2016 Common principles for rehabilitation for adults in audiology services. Available at
• https://www.thebsa.org.uk/resources/common-principles-rehabilitation-adults-audiology-services/
• Edwards, E. 2019 Reflective practice: Available (via blackboard)at https://softchalkcloud.com/lesson/serve/AG542KrlQ3tO7W/html
• Grenness C, Hickson L, Laplante-Lévesque A, Davidson B. 2014 Patient-centred care: a review for rehabilitative audiologists. Int J Audiol 53 Suppl 1:S60-7
• Health and care profession council. HCPC standards. Available at https://www.hcpc-uk.org/standards/
• International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) (2001) World Health Organisation (WHO) Geneva

PLEASE NOTE: A greater range of references will be provided in lectures.