07733 - Audiometry

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Cecilia Botti
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/32
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 9080)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to enable students to know and understand basic information on the assessment of hearing function in adult and pediatric patients.

Course contents

Physiology and pathophysiology of the ear

Pure tone audiometry

Audiometric vocal testing

Impedance

ABR

OAE

Pediatric audiometry (newborn hearing screening, hearing loss diagnosis in children and infants)

Types of hearing loss (sonsorineural, transmissive, mixed hearing loss)

Outline of instrumental vestibular assessment

Readings/Bibliography

Albera R, Rossi G. Otorinolaringoiatria. Ed. Minerva Medica 2021

Prosser S, Martini A. Argomenti di Audiologia. Omega Ed. 2013

Teaching methods

Lectures in classroom

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Slides

Office hours

See the website of Cecilia Botti