COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PRACTICAL AUDIOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KBB 6033 PRACTICAL AUDIOLOGY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Audiology

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR GÜNAY KIRKIM

Offered to

Audiology

Course Objective

Advance the knowledge and ability to perform routine and specific audiological tests.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Know to neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of mammalian hearing.
2   Know to human psychophysicsandcentral auditory processing system.
3   Be able to know the diversity of biology and genetics of hearing loss.
4   Understand and investigate how audiometric results can help provide differential diagnoses of common auditory disorders.
5   To be able to perform advance audiological tests.
6   An advanced understanding of the acoustic, anatomical, psychological, developmental and social aspects of normal and disordered hearing
7   Knowledge of therange of appropriate management steps for persons with hearing and balance disorders and the methods for determining the effectiveness of each.
8   Knowledge of the ototoxicity and vestibulotoxicity mechanisms, advanced evaluation methods, and interpretation criteria.
9   Knowledge how investigates auditory perception of normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of mammalian hearing
2 Human psychophysics
3 Human central auditory processing
4 Central auditory processing disorders
5 Biology and genetics of hearing loss
6 Audiological tests interpretation
7 Audiological tests evaluation
8 Acoustic, anatomical aspects of normal and disordered hearing
9 Psychological, developmental and social aspects of normal and disordered hearing
10 Ototoxicity and its mechanisms
11 Vestibulotoxicity and its mechanisms
12 Ototoxicity and vestibulotoxicity test
13 Auditory perception
14 General assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

1) Kulak Burun Boğaz Hastalıkları ve Baş ve Boyun Cerrahisi, Onur Çelik, 2. Baskı, 2007
2) Essential Otolaryngology, K.J. Lee (Türkçe çevirisi) 2004.
3) Kulak Hastalıkları A. Necmettin Akyıldız, I - 1998 ve II 2002
4) Çakır N. Otolaringoloji, Baş ve Boyun Cerrahisi. Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri, 1996.
5) Otolaringoloji Temel Bilgiler. Seiden AM et al. (Çeviri editörü: Çetin Kaleli), Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri, 2003.
6) Kulak Burun Boğaz Hastalıkları ve Baş-Boyun Cerrahisi. Koç C. Güneş Kitabevi, 2004
7) Audiology Treatment, Valente-Hosford-Dunn-Valente,
8) Educational Audiology Handbook, Johnson-Benson-Seaton
9) Scott-Brown s Adult Audiology, Sixth Edition

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, practical testing sessions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST* 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 2 30
Tutorials 5 2 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 2 30
Preparation for midterm exam 2 2 4
Preparation for final exam 2 2 4
Preparing assignments 5 5 25
Preparing presentations 5 5 25
Reading 5 3 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 148

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.154
LO.254
LO.3544
LO.45454555
LO.5544
LO.6444
LO.75455
LO.844
LO.955

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