MSc Educational Audiology

Course Leader Tracy Draper MSc CAC
Level-length MSc - two years part-time
PG Dip - two years part-time
Individual Module - four weekends
Start date September
School Oxbrookes University, Westminster Institute of Education

2010/11

Residential Weekends

Weekend 1/7           17-19 September 2010

Weekend 2/8           29-31 October 2010

Weekend 3/9           21-23 January 2011

Weekend 4/10         15-17 April 2011

Weekend 5/11         3-5 June 2011

Summer School     9-13 July 2011 

This modular course aims to stimulate and provide the opportunity for critical reflection on the scientific principles underlying audiological practice.  Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to relate general principles and issues of their own experience of working with hearing impaired children and young people.  Laboratory sessions, practical workshops, clinical instruction and clinical experience are used to support the acquisition of practical and professional skills. 

The Course trains people to become Educational Audiologists – ie Teachers of the Deaf with a Specialism in Audiology. Teachers may work as Ed Auds in their School or Authority, with opportunity to work within the National Service, usually as part of a multidisciplinary team. Becoming an Ed Aud may be vital in some Authorities for bridging the gap between Health and Education, providing a vital work partnership to benefit Deaf Children.

Teaching and learning experiences include lectures and demonstrations, tutor and student-led seminars and discussion groups.  Assessment tasks include laboratory reports, structured essays, synoptic examinations in each year of the course, seminar presentations, case studies and demonstration of an audiological procedure.

The modules are:

Module 1: Physics of Sound, the acoustics of speech and speech production
 
Module 2: Anatomy and Physiology,
 
Module 3: Assessment of Hearing, Instrumentation and Calibration
 
Module 4: The Development of and Psychology of Hearing
 
Module 5: Hearing aids, Hearing Aid Systems, Cochlear Implants and Assistive Devices,
 
Module 6: Linguistics and Communication Development,
 
Module 7: Research Methods
 
The programme has a taught element of 2 years, plus an extra 5 months for completion of a clinic log and up to 3 years following the taught component to do the Dissertation. The two-year, part-time course requires students to attend a series of lectures on ten weekends over the two years in addition to attendance at two summer schools, each of five days' duration.

Individual modules can be taken independently within one or two academic years according to need.

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