Introduction to Paediatric Audiology

Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify important issues to identifying when taking paediatric case histories and relate those factors to the subsequent assessment and management of the child
• Explain common approaches to the habilitation of children with hearing loss, including hearing-aid prescription and evaluation and other common and emerging forms of management
• Explain the most common methods of hearing assessment used with children, including their underlying principles and the interpretation of their results
• Explain the effect of hearing impairment on child development, and relate child development to expected milestones for education and language

• The importance of timely hearing assessment and its link to speech and language development
• Milestones of normal child development particularly of speech and language
• Epidemiology of, and screening for, hearing impairment in childhood
• Strategies for assessment
• Practicals on hearing assessment (1) of babies and toddlers; (2) pre-school children
• Constructing and interpreting patient history
• Selecting appropriate tests for different ages
• An introduction to Sections C1 and C2 the IRCP
• Indications for medical/surgical management or onward referral, for example due to glue ear
• Basic habilitation approaches applied to children
• Assessment for cochlear implant candidacy

• Lectures in classroom environment
• Collaborative learning
• Self-directed study
• Small-group practicals

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.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.