COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PEDIATRIC AUDIOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KBB 6032 PEDIATRIC AUDIOLOGY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Audiology

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜNAY KIRKIM

Offered to

Audiology

Course Objective

The target of the lesson is to provide the knowledge and skills about hearing measurement techniques, learning the speech and language development stages, evaluating auditory perception and maintaining rehabilitation programming in the pediatric population with hearing aids and/or cochlear implants.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To practice and to comment of the advanced audiologic laboratory techniques
2   To take a role in the training of audiologists and audiometrists
3   To prepare the settings of a new paediatric audiology clinic
4   To obtain accurate information about hearing and balance function via behavioural, electrophysiologic and psychosocial assessments
5   To interpret audiological test results
6   To perform and manage the audiological process in the newborn hearing screening program
7   To perform audiological evaluation of children with hearing aid and cochlear implant, to follow up their speech and language developments by means of various questionnaires and tests

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Behavioral tests in neonates
2 Evaluation of the children in the period of 6 months to 3 years old using behavioral tests
3 Play audiometry
4 Stages of language development in childhood
5 Objective audiological tests (electrophysiological tests)
6 Speech tests of childhood
7 Hearing screening tests in newborns
8 Childhood central auditory processing disorders
9 Pediatric aural rehabilitation
10 Counseling families of children with pediatric sensorineural hearing loss
11 Family education I
12 The settings of a new paediatric audiology clinic.
13 To whom have been applied cochlear implantation, when have been applied it And selection of suitable candidates for cochlear implantation
14 To follow up the children with cochlear implant audiologically

Recomended or Required Reading

1) Kulak Burun Boğaz Hastalıkları ve Baş ve Boyun Cerrahisi, Onur Çelik, 2. Baskı, 2007
2) Essential Otolaryngology, K.J. Lee (Türkçe çevirisi) 2004.
3) Kulak Hastalıkları A. Necmettin Akyıldız, I - 1998 ve II 2002
4) Çakır N. Otolaringoloji, Baş ve Boyun Cerrahisi. Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri, 1996.
5) Otolaringoloji Temel Bilgiler. Seiden AM et al. (Çeviri editörü: Çetin Kaleli), Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri, 2003.
6) Kulak Burun Boğaz Hastalıkları ve Baş-Boyun Cerrahisi. Koç C. Güneş Kitabevi, 2004
7) Audiology Treatment, Valente-Hosford-Dunn-Valente,
8) Educational Audiology Handbook, Johnson-Benson-Seaton

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations and practical sessions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 2 30
Tutorials 5 2 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 2 30
Preparation for midterm exam 2 2 4
Preparation for final exam 2 2 4
Preparing assignments 5 5 25
Preparing presentations 5 5 25
Reading 5 5 25
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 158

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.15445
LO.25
LO.3454
LO.4545
LO.5454
LO.6455
LO.7445