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Unit Overview

Description

This unit is taken over two successive semesters and parts 1 and 2 must be completed sequentially to fulfil the requirements of the unit. The unit provides students with the knowledge and skills in the application of advanced hearing device technology. Topics include nonlinear and programmable hearing aids, compression, selection programs for multiple memory hearing aids and product comparison. The unit also covers selection, evaluation and training in devices for the profoundly deaf adult, including cochlear implants, tactile aids and assistive listening devices.

Each component of assessment must be passed in order to pass the unit.

Credit
6 points
Offering
(see Timetable)
AvailabilityLocationMode
Semester 2UWA (Perth)Face to face
Outcomes

Students are able to (1) explain advanced hearing device technology; (2) explain nonlinear and programmable hearing aids and their fitting procedures, including compression; (3) explain evaluation and training in devices for the profoundly deaf adult, including cochlear implants, tactile aids, assistive listening devices; (4) explain the process of advanced product evaluation and comparison; and (5) explain outcomes assessment and the design of rehabilitation programs, including counselling.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) group assignment; (2) clinical examination; and (3) final written examination. Further information is available in the unit outline.

To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the group assignment, clinical examination, and final written examination components.

Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit.

Unit Coordinator(s)
Ms Emma Chaffey
Unit rules
Prerequisites
Enrolment in
90540 Master of Clinical Audiology
or 00840 Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Audiology
and Successful completion of
48 points in your chosen degree
Contact hours
equivalent to 4 hours a week of lectures and practical work with hearing aids, similar technology and other rehabilitative procedures, but delivered in an intensive 5-week course in January–March, and June–August, each followed by two weeks of workshops, prior to attending external clinical placements
Text

Dillon, H. Hearing Aids: Boomerang Press 2001

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