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| Audiology is the study of hearing. It is a helping profession, concerned with prevention, diagnosis, and rehabilitation of auditory problems. |
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Term
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Definition
– Clinician
– Therapist
– Educator
– Researcher
– Administrator
– Consultant |
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| What do audiologists typically do daily? |
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Definition
| Evaluations, Rehabilitation, Prevention |
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| How do you become a certified audiologist? |
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- Bachelor’s degree (typically in CDIS)
- In the old days, a Master’s Degree
- Now, a clinical doctorate (Au.D) OR, a
Research doctorate (Ph.D)
- AND licensure |
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| Where do Audiologists practice? |
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Definition
Hospitals and Medical Settings
Physician’s Practices
Private Practice
Universities
Schools |
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Definition
Pediatrics
Neonatology
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Oncology
Community and family medicine
Gerontology |
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| In the early history of audiology (1920's-1930's) |
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| Tuning forks as diagnostic tool |
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| What was audiology like in the 1950's and 1960's? |
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In early ’50s fewer than 500 people
Considered themselves Audiologists.
Audiology was more of an academic
Discipline.
Dispensing hearing aids was considered
Unethical. |
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| What was audiology like in the 1970's? |
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Audiology as a
Clinical Profession
Hearing aid advancement
Cochlear Implants!! |
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Definition
Demonstrated how the ELECTRIC audiometer could
Be used as an enhancement to tuning forks to quantify
Hearing loss (still the early pure tone audiometer was a
Crude device even until the 1950s)
– First to describe audiometric patterns of many different
Types of auditory disorders
-Developed the pure-tone audiogram |
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| Father of Diagnostic Audiology |
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