Facilitating Effective Auditory Rehabilitation 2

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Explain the impact of hearing impairment and tinnitus on adults and their families, in the context of the international definitions and classifications for functioning, disability and health
• Explain the various stages of the common journeys of hearing-impaired adults, including pre-clinical, clinical and post-clinical stages
• Explain important co-morbid disorders (e.g. of balance, vision and cognition), their assessment and their implications for adult auditory rehabilitation
• Formulate and critically evaluate an individual management plan for an adult with hearing impairment or tinnitus given the biopsychosocial impact of the condition and their biopsychosocial needs, including non-technological and technological interventions/techniques, with reference to evidence (e.g. basic science, professional standards, best-practice guidelines and published research)
• Critically evaluate scientific research on the effectiveness of non-technological components of rehabilitation, for example in terms of different levels of evidence and the strengths and weakness of different study designs.

• Epidemiology of hearing difficulties and tinnitus, and comorbid disorders and their interrelationship
• Physical, emotional and psychosocial impact of hearing impairment and tinnitus
• Response of society to hearing impairment and tinnitus
• Factors associated with acceptance, goal setting, decision making and reporting and evaluating outcomes

Principles of counselling including Counselling skills, tools and approaches to facilitate personal adjustment

• Assessment types, including Direct Referral and reassessment
• Criteria for onward Referral
• How to improve patients’ communication skills and anticipatory, maintenance and repair strategies
• Presbyacusis
• Tinnitus and hyperacusis: aetiology and introduction to management
• Common co-morbid disorders (e.g. of balance, vision and cognition), their assessment and their implications for adult hearing rehabilitation, especially in the older population
• Assistive listening devices (ALDs)
• Bone conduction devices and temporal bone implants
• Introduction to EAS devices and cochlear implants-candidacy, assessment and management

• Traditional classroom style lectures
• Facilitated journal club sessions
• Question and answer sessions
• Tutorials as and when required
• Open door policy by module co-ordinator
• Lectures support small group practical sessions in Professional and Clinical Practice in Audiology 2
• Self-directed learning
• Collaborative learning
• A formative counterpart to the summative assessment

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.