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AURAL REHABILITATION (AUR-301) SLP: Course contents

Aural rehabilitation is a comprehensive approach to help individuals with hearing loss improve their communication skills and overall quality of life. It involves a variety of strategies and interventions designed to address the impact of hearing loss on

Learning Objectives

After studying this course, the students will be able to;

  • Habilitate and Rehabilitate children with different kinds of hearing disabilities.
  • Development of hearing, communication, language and speech skills.
  • Promotion of cognitive and learning skills
  • Fostering emotional development, self-empowerment, awareness and the ability to cope with the hearing loss.
  • Development of the child's social skills
  • Social integration of children with hearing loss in their natural surroundings and with their hearing peers.

 

Course Outline

  • Definitions and goals in aural rehabilitation, classification of hearing handicap. Early identification and its importance in aural rehabilitation.
  1. Uni sensoryVs Multisensory approach:
  2. Acoupedic approach
  3. Manual Vs oral form of communication manual communication:

Systems that parallel English, (Manual alphabet); interactive systems (cued speech : Rochester method): Those alternative to English (ASL) Pakistan Sign Language; Contrived system (SEE-I, SEE-II, Signed English)

  1. TOTAL COMMUNICATION
    • Methods of teaching language to the hearing impaired
    • Natural method: maternal reflective method.
    • Structured method (grammatical method) : Fitzgerald key, box technique, others.
    • Computer aided method.
    • Educational problems of hard of hearing in Pakistan.
    • Counseling the parents and teachers regarding the education of the hearing handicapped.
    • Setting up class rooms for the hearing handicapped.
    • Home training – need, preparation of lessons, correspondence programs, follow-up.
    • Classroom acoustics, preferential seating and adequate illumination.Classroom amplification devices.
    • Management of hearing impaired children with special needs.
    • Management of children with central auditory processing problems
    • Speech reading

 

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Course Outline

  • AUDITORY LEARNING
  • Definitions and historical background
  • Role of audition in speech and language development in normal children and its application in education of the hearing impaired.
  • Factors in auditory training : Motivation of the case, intelligence, age, knowledge of progress, etc.
  • Methods of auditory training.
  • Individual Vs Group auditory training
  • AUDITORY TRAINING ACTIVITIES
  • For patients of different age groups
  • In patients with congenital and acquired hearing losses.
  • Verbal Vs Nonverbal material
  • For individual Vs Group activities
  • Rehabilitation of the hearing impaired – Elderly population
  • Introduction to speech acoustics;
  • Development of a basic level of operation of a range of acoustic techniques for assessment and treatment of speech and voice disorders, including aerodynamic measures, spectrography, F0 and energy extraction, automatised analysis systems and voice analysis (on the basis of Praat and Kay Elemetrics systems – Multispeech, Multi-Dimensional Voice Program, Motor Speech Profiles, Real-Time Pitch and Phonatory Airflow System);
  • Integration of perceptual and acoustic analysis of prosodic as well as segmental features;
  • Exploration of how acoustic techniques can support treatment by providing biofeedback (e.g. Visipitch& CSL Games);
  • Sensory Processing Disorder.
  • ASD sensory issues
  • Visual impairment. Speech and language considerations.
  • Auditory processing disorders
  • Visual impairment. Speech and language considerations.