AUDIOFONIATRIAModule AUDIOLOGIA
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: SALVATORE FERLITOExpected Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge and ability to understand swallowing pathologies in pediatric, adult, and senile age.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding of dysphagia following surgical interventions on the upper aero-digestive tract.
3. Autonomy of judgment in proposing clinical and instrumental methods of swallowing and remedial and rehabilitative methods of swallowing.
4. Communication skills in a correct and consistent way the concepts of different forms of dysphagia.5. Ability to independently learn the content covered useful for updating one's knowledge.
5. Ability to independently learn the content covered, useful for updating one's knowledge.
Course Structure
Acoustic physics, anatomical physiology of hearing, physiopathology of hearing, diagnostics of sensorineural and transmissive hypoacusias,
If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote way, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.
Verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, should the conditions require it.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
acoustic physics and psychoacoustics
anatomy and physiology of hearing and vestibular
otological and vestibular semeiotic
audiometric techniques
Hearing disorders
Hearing aids (by air, bone-conduction anchored to the bone and implanted)
Cochlear implant
"Contribution of teaching to the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" - Goal 4, Target 4.7, Mode: dedicated seminar
Textbook Information
- Audiologie by Martin Kompis. Hogrefe Verlag. 2022
- Otorhinolaryngology. Albera, Canale, Cavallo, Pecorari, Succo. Ed. Minerva Medica 2021
- Audiologia forense. Umberto Ambrosetti. Edizione Minerva Medica. 2025
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anatomia e fisiologia dell'orecchio | Audiologie |
| 2 | Audiologie | |
| 3 | Audiologie |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Separate written and oral test
If the course is to be taught in a mixed or distance mode, the necessary changes may be made in relation to what has been stated previously, in order to comply with the planned syllabus.
The verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, if the conditions require it.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Differences between transmissive and sensorineural hearing loss.
speed of sound propagation in the various means of transmission
chart by Wegel
External, middle and inner ear functions
physiology of hair cells