HEPL

1^st year lecture

To recognize an auditory dysfunction and to be able to analyse it (transmissional and perceptional hearing loss ).

To learn the importance and the use of the different clinical audiometry tests that the student can apply during his clinical training courses.

To understand simple notions of children's acoumetry and audiometry. That will allow the future orthophonists to recognize and heaving loss in their patients.

1)Psychoacoustics :

• sound stimulus: nature and characteristics;
• sound frequency and loudness;
• tone;
• simultaneous sound auditory;
• subjective sounds;
• time's part;
• auditory orientation.

2)Auditory physiology :

• vibratory transmission of the sound wave;
• perceptional mechanisms in the inner ear;
• central auditiry processing
• brain auditory fonctions

3)Acoumetry : definition, bone conduction's mechanisms, tonal and vocal acoumetry.

4)Audiometry : tonal, vocal, children's audiometry, pathologic audiograms, central auditory processing.

PORTMANN, M.et C., Précis d’audiométrie clinique, Masson, Paris,1988.

LEGENT, F., BORDURE, Ph., CALAIS, C.et FERRI-LAUNAY, M-L., Manuel pratique des tests de l’audition, Masson, Paris, 1998.

LAFON J-C., Le test Phonétique et la mesure de l'audition, Centrex, Eindhoven, 1965.

GELIS C., Bases techniques et principes d’application de la prothèse auditive, Sauramps Médical, Paris, 1993.