CMSD 3006 Aural Rehabilitation

This course discusses assistive listening devices, hearing aids, and other treatment modalities. This course includes an in-depth exploration of communication repair strategies, counseling techniques, and an overview of patient education and teaching methods and strategies.

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CMSD 2001, CMSD 2002, CMSD 3000

Offered

TBA

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Define audiologic/aural rehabilitation/habilitation, who directs it, where it is done, what it encompasses, and why.
2. Describe the challenges posed by hearing loss across the life span.
3. Display basic knowledge of interpreting audiological data.
4. Identify and describe common assessment and intervention techniques utilized to minimize and alleviate the communication difficulties associated with hearing loss, including counseling, communication strategies training, auditory training, speech reading, hearing aids, assistive devices, and cochlear implantation.
5. Display beginning proficiency in using some assessment tools (e.g., interviews, speech reading assessments, and disability/handicap/activity limitation/participation restriction assessments) used in aural rehabilitation.
6. Demonstrate an awareness of family-centered practice and patient-centered practice.
7. Develop a recommendation list relating to hearing loss, communication options, and strategies that may be helpful to parents or teachers of children with hearing loss or adults with hearing loss.
8. Synthesize pediatric and adult cases of hearing loss and develop recommendations relating to possible aural rehabilitation/habilitation.
9. Describe an aural rehabilitation/habilitation team of professionals when working with individuals who are hearing-impaired or deaf.
10. Demonstrate an understanding of social models of disability as they relate to individuals who are hearing-impaired or deaf.