Balanced Curriculum
First Year
Introduces a broad range of clinical applications and theoretical foundations designed to prepare students for clinical experiences with clients.
Students learn how to conduct Audiologic protocols and procedures, and they will learn the scientific principles underlying them.
Immediately students learn to integrate theory and practice.
Subsequent Years
The focus is on knowledge in depth. Students will train in specialty areas such as noise and hearing conservation, advanced rehabilitative audiology, auditory processing disorders, and cochlear implants. All the major areas of audiology diagnosis, hearing aids, and rehabilitation figure prominently in our AuD curriculum.
Students will participate in clinical rotations in the Julia M. Davis Speech-Language-Hearing Center and in community clinics.
Clinical Research & Practice
To emphasize the integration of the classroom and the clinic all students will meet as a group with faculty every other week in a special course (SLHS 5820).
Advances in research, community practices, new equipment, and other topics in Audiology will be discussed and related to classroom lectures.