SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERISTY

CMD 555, AUDIOLOGY AND AUDIOMETRY II

SPRING SEMESTER, 2004

 

Instructor

Robert E. Jirsa, Ph.D.

DA-012I, Phone: 203-392-5961

Email:  jirsar1@southernct.edu

Website:  http://southernct.edu/~Jirsa/index.htm

Office hours:     Monday:           9:00 – 10:00; 3:30 – 4:00

            Tuesday:           11:00 – 12:00; 2:00 – 3:00

            Wednesday:     9:30 – 11:00

If none of these are convenient, appointments will be made at your convenience.  You may also call or email me.

 

Prerequisite Requirements

CMD 530 and/or Departmental Permission

 

Course Description

Students are introduced to advanced diagnostic techniques in audiology.  Included are specialized behavioral tests for the differential diagnosis of peripheral auditory function and auditory pathology.

 

Text

Katz, J. (ed).  (2002). Handbook of Clinical Audiology, 5th edition.  Lippincott Williams                                                      and Wilkins: Philadelphia

 

Course Objectives

  • Students will acquire, and be able to demonstrate, an in-depth understanding of the basic peripheral audiologic test battery.
  • Students will learn the principles, rationale, and historical significance of various behavioral tests for differentiating cochlear from retrocochlear pathology and become quite comfortable with clinical decision processes.
  • Students will learn how these behavioral tests relate with objective measures of cochlear and retrocochlear function.
  • Students will become familiar and comfortable with these assessment tools as part of the test battery approach used in the differential diagnosis of auditory function.
  • Students will become familiar with the major audiologic, and audiologic related, journals.

 

Mode of Instruction

Lectures, clinical demonstrations, class discussion, and student presentations will constitute the academic environment within the classroom.  The Department of Communication Disorders is committed to providing quality academic and clinical training to all students enrolled in its programs.  If you need course adaptations or accommodations due to a disability, it you have emergency medical information to share with me, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appointment with me as soon as possible.

 

Course Outline

 

Date                                        Topic/Activity                                     Text

 

1/27                                         Introductory Remarks

 

                                                Quick Review: Clinical Decision                  Ch. 10

                                                Processes

·        Sensitivity/Specificity

·        Test strategies

·        Patient management/referral

processes

 

2/3 & 2/10                               Central Auditory Assessment                       Ch.  28

·        Principles

·        Test Battery Approach

·        Clinical Demonstration

 

2/17                                         Diagnostic Implications of                             Ch. 7

                                                Speech Audiometric Protocols

 

2/17 & 2/24                             Immittance Measurements                           Ch 11 – 13

·        Principles/Terminology

·        Tympanometry

·        Acoustic Reflex

·        Clinical Demonstration

 

3/2 & 3/9                                 Behavioral Site of Lesion Tests                    Ch. 8, 32

·        Tests of Cochlear Function

·        Auditory Adaptation

·        Bekesy Protocols

·        Clinical Demonstration

 

3/16                                         Mid-term Examination

 

3/30 & 4/6                               Special Populations                                        Ch. 30, 32,

·        Functional Hearing Losses              33

·        Developmental Disabilities

·        Elderly

 

 

 

4/13 - 4/27                               Physiologic Tests of Auditory Function        Ch. 15, 16,

·        Otoacoustic Emissions                                17, 22 

·        Electrocochleography

·        Short Latency Evoked Potentials

 

5/4                                           Clinical Demonstration

 

5/11                                         Review

 

TBA                                         Final Examination

 

Course Requirements

 

  • Attendance:  As professional adults, I would expect that you would know the importance participating in every class.  A great deal of material will be presented at each session that is designed to supplement the material in the text.  Since everyone has their own learning style, it is often difficult to maximize learning from someone else’s notes and much of the material on the tests will come from lecture notes.  There are, of course, valid reasons for missing a class due to unforeseen circumstances beyond your control.  Please notify me if this is the case.  An unexcused absence on the day of an examination will result in a failing grade for that examination.

 

  • Examinations:  There will be a mid-term and a final examination.  While the final examination will comprehensive, it will be more heavily weighted for material presented since midterm.

 

  • Class Project:  The class project will be to administer a research battery of tests of central auditory function to normal subjects.  You will work in teams to administer these tests to at least 10 subjects.

 

  • Journal Readings:  In any enlightened profession, the necessity of maintaining currency and an analytical and critical way of thinking is paramount.  Consequently, I have included a list of some of the more important journals in our field at the end of the syllabus. In addition, I have provided some on-line references you well might want to explore.  As part of the final examination, there will be a question related to your journal readings asking you to discuss one article that your found particularly good and useful and one article that you found to be problematic – and why.

 

  • Grading:  The following distribution will be used to determine final grades.

 

    • Mid-term:   30%
    • Final Examination:  45%
    • Class Project:   25%

 

  • Letter Grades:
    • A+       (98% -- 100%)
    • A         (94% -- 97%)
    • A-        (90% -- 93%)
    • B+       (88% -- 89%)
    • B         (84% -- 87%)
    • B-        (80% -- 83%)
    • C+       (78% -- 79%)
    • C         (70% -- 77%)

                                                                                   

  • Prominent Audiological  and Audiologically Related Journals
    • American Journal of Audiology
    • American Journal of Otology
    • Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology
    • Archives of Otolaryngology
    • Archives of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
    • Audiology and Neuro-Otology
    • British Journal of Audiology
    • Ear and Hearing
    • Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology
    • Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    • Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
    • Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
    • Journal of Educational Audiology
    • Journal of Laryngology and Otology
    • Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Research
    • Seminars in Hearing
    • Scandinavian Audiology

 

A comprehensive reading list may be found on-line:  http://www.comdisdome.com/dome/shelfview.jsp?userid=jirsar1@southernct.edu&shelfid=3874