Objectives: After completing this course, the student will be able to understand the
- Different speech and language disorders
- Basic concepts and tools required for diagnosing speech and language disorders
- Basics of assessment procedures for speech and language disorders
- Basic principles and intervention procedures for speech and language disorders
- Clinical requirements to practice
- Basic principles of providing counselling and guidance to clients and caregivers
- Teacher: Veena Mohan
- Teacher: Vrinda R
Objective: After completing this course, the student will be able to
- Understand and carryout experiments to measure differential sensitivity, loudness and pitch
- Take case history, administer the tuning fork tests and interpret the results
- Administer pure tone audiometry including masking on clinical population and appreciate the theoretical background of it
- Carryout different tests involved in speech audiometry and appreciate the theoretical background
- Carryout subjective calibration and daily listening checks of the audiometer
- Get adequate theoretical information necessary to understand concepts involved in objective calibration
- Teacher: Arya Manoharan
Objective: After completing this course, the student will be able to understand:
- Different branches and aspects of linguistics
- Characteristics and functions of language
- Different branches of Phonetics, applied linguistics and Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
- Acquisition of language and factors affecting it
- Bi/multilingualism and related issues
Objective: After completing this course, the student will be able to understand the
- Causes, signs, symptoms, pathophysiology and management of diseases of external, middle and inner ear leading to hearing loss.
- Causes, signs, symptoms, pathophysiology and management of diseases of laryngeal and articulatory system
Objectives: After studying the course a student will have:
- A basic idea about the role of genetics in Speech-Language and Hearing
- Knowledge about the various concepts related to growth and development in pediatrics
- Teacher: Mini Mathew
Clinical practicum- Audiology
- Teacher: Roshni Abraham