Advanced Solutions in Hearing Care (AUDI90062)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• Generate, modify, apply, and appraise management, intervention and aural-rehabilitation strategies that are client and family-centred.
• Adapt and apply communication skills to advocate and assist clients with complex needs and diverse backgrounds in areas including rehabiliation education, hearing protection and prevention of hearing loss.
• Evaluate and understand the limitations of technologies and interventions related to hearing needs.
• Justify the role an Audiologist plays in hearing loss education and prevention.
• Critically evaluate strategies to address the barriers to ear and hearing care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Generic skills

• Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to new problems;
• Communicate clearly in written and oral forms;
• Work as part of a team to address a common goal;
• Manage competing demands on time, including self-directed project work;
• Show respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of scholarship;
• Integrate knowledge from different domains;
• Value the collection and recording of accurate and complete data; and
• Reflect upon and identify deficiencies in knowledge, skills and attitudes and consider strategies to address those deficiencies.