Basic Procedures in Audiology

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. state how to clerk a patient (case history taking) and perform the task; 2. describe some basic measurements like vital signs; 3. perform basic otoscopic examinations; 4. perform audiological examinations-both screening and diagnostic; 5. demonstrate procedure of patient clerking to reach a diagnosis and should be able to apply some advanced auditory tests for patients; 6. list out battery of tests based on case history of patients and clinical observation; 7. explain different classifications, types, configurations and site of lesions of the hearing disorder based on test findings; 8. apply the knowledge of masking technique in pure tone audiometry; 9. explain what an audiogram is and their clinical interpretations; and 10. explain what a tympanogram is and their clinical interpretations.

Pure tone audiometry (air/bone conduction). Masking techniques in pure tone audiometry (PTA) Tympanometry, acoustic reflex and Eustachian Tube Dysfunction tests. Manual and Video Otoscopic examination. Tuning fork tests. Auditory brain-stem response test. Oto-acoustic emission test. Speech audiometry (Speech Reception/Discrimination tests). Sensitivity prediction by acoustic reflex (SPAR) test. Comfortable loudness and uncomfortable loudness level tests. Auditory fatigue test. Test of Malingering. Vestibular tests (Optokinetic, Calorics, Gaze, Pendulum, Dix-Hallpike manouvre, Video-electronystagmography, Tracking, Saccade, Cervical vestibular electro-myogenic potential (cVEMPS) tests) etc. Behavioural audiometric test-distraction test, Cooperative test. Performance test. McCormick speech discrimination test. Visual reinforcement audiometry.