Paediatric audiological medicine

Contents include: epidemiology of permanent childhood hearing impairment; screening and surveillance; behavioural tests of hearing; neuro-diagnostic paediatric audiology; radiological abnormalities of the ear; genetics of hearing loss; craniofacial syndromes and hearing loss; infectious causes of paediatric hearing impairment; adverse perinatal factors and hearing loss; acute otitis media and otitis media with effusion; central auditory processing disorders; auditory neuropathy; progressive hearing loss; children with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss; medical management of the deaf child in a multidisciplinary context; selecting amplification for children; cochlear implants in children; managing the listening environment - classroom acoustics and assistive listening devices; balance disorders in children; vestibular testing in children; management of tinnitus in children; development of early vocalisation and language behaviours of young hearing-impaired children; deaf children and communication approaches; delay and disorder in speech and language; psychological effects of deafness and hearing impairment; the education of deaf and hearing-impaired children.