Objectives: After completing this course, the student should be able to
- Describe the functioning of the balance and vestibular system
- Explain the disorders of the vestibular system
- Assess vestibular system using appropriate tests/protocols
- Recommend appropriate management option for persons with vestibular dysfunction
- Counsel and guide the clinical clientele with vestibular disorders on quality of life etc.
Objectives: At the end of the course, the students should be able to
- Diagnose and differentially diagnose auditory processing disorders (apds) and explain their physiological bases,
- Administer different tests for diagnosis and interpret the findings including correlation with findings from imaging and cognitive studies,
- Institute screening and public education programs in different setups on apds,
- Identify and explain factors influencing assessment of apds,
- Advise clinical clientele on management of APDS including guidance on aids and appliances, and
- Advise and liaise with members of the management team like neurologists, neurosurgeons on the diagnosis as well as management of apds.
Objectives:
- After completing this course, the candidate should be able to
- Explain coding of speech in the auditory pathway in normal hearing individuals
- Explain basic concepts regarding speech perception
- Critically evaluate theories of speech perception and methods to synthesis speech
- Describe the major and minor acoustic cues for speech perception in normal hearing individuals
- Explain about speech perception in relation to short term memory
- Describe aspects related to dichotic speech perception
- Explain infant and animal speech perception
Objectives: After completing this course, the student will be able to
- describe and classify auditory evoked potentials,
- understand the technology for recording auditory evoked potentials,
- record and interpret exogenous and endogenous potentials,
- use appropriate protocols for recording exogenous and endogenous potentials for clinical and research purposes, and
- understand research needs in auditory evoked potentials
Objectives: After completing this course, the student will be able to
- understand the genetic basis for hearing loss
- understand the tests/procedures for identifying genes for hearing loss
- counsel parents or caregivers of children with genetic and non-genetic hearing loss
- carry out screening programs to identify hearing loss using appropriate protocols, and
- diagnose and manage hearing loss in children using appropriate tests/protocols and aural management procedures