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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - SPA6348
Tracking Number - 2004

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Current Status: Approved, Permanent Archive - 2005-01-10
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  1. Date & Time Submitted: 2003-11-11
  2. Department: CSD
  3. College: BC
  4. Budget Account Number: 1219-000-00
  5. Contact Person: Arthur M. Guilford
  6. Phone: 49790
  7. Email: Guilford@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
  8. Prefix: SPA
  9. Number: 6348
  10. Full Title: Principles of Amplification II
  11. Credit Hours: 3
  12. Section Type: C - Class Lecture (Primarily)
  13. Is the course title variable?: N
  14. Is a permit required for registration?: Y
  15. Are the credit hours variable?: N
  16. Is this course repeatable?:
  17. If repeatable, how many times?: 0
  18. Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Principles of Amp II
  19. Course Online?: -
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  21. Grading Option: R - Regular
  22. Prerequisites: SPA 6345
  23. Corequisites: None
  24. Course Description: The general goal of this second of three hearing aid courses is to provide information and training related to the assessment, selection, fitting, verification, and validation processes associated with the modern hearing aid.

  25. Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Necessary for the Au.D. program.
  26. What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course is part of a required sequence. It will not service any other programs
  27. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes 3
  28. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Au.D. or Ph.D.
  29. Objectives: 1. describe the effect of sensory hearing impairment on communication function; 2. describe the process for assessing a patient for hearing instruments; 3. demonstrate the process for prescribing linear hearing instruments; 4. demonstrate ear impression techniques; 5. demonstrate the use of non-linear hearing aid prescription formulae; 6. demonstrate real ear aided measurements; 7. demonstrate nonprogrammable and programmable hearing aid modifications; 8. describe special considerations for the pediatric patient; 9. identify common hearing aid related malfunctions and prescribe appropriate remedies; 10. describe the hearing aid orientation process 11. describe appropriate hearing aid outcome measures; and 12. describe unconventional amplification systems
  30. Learning Outcomes: 1. describe the effect of sensory hearing impairment on communication function; 2. describe the process for assessing a patient for hearing instruments; 3. demonstrate the process for prescribing linear hearing instruments; 4. demonstrate ear impression techniques; 5. demonstrate the use of non-linear hearing aid prescription formulae; 6. demonstrate real ear aided measurements; 7. demonstrate nonprogrammable and programmable hearing aid modifications; 8. describe special considerations for the pediatric patient; 9. identify common hearing aid related malfunctions and prescribe appropriate remedies; 10. describe the hearing aid orientation process 11. describe appropriate hearing aid outcome measures; and 12. describe unconventional amplification systems
  31. Major Topics: Effects of hearing loss on speech perception; Patient Assessment (part 1); Patient Assessment (part 2); Hearing aid selection and prescription; Earmolds; Fitting conventional amplification (part 1); Fitting conventional amplification (part 2); Fitting nonlinear amplification; Real ear measurements; Pediatric considerations; Follow up and repair; Fitting programmables. and digitals; Outcome measures; Fitting nonconventional instruments
  32. Textbooks: Text: Audiology Treatment. Michael Valente, Holly Hosford-Dunn, and Ross J. Roeser (eds.), Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2000
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