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isthe rehabilitation concerned with

diagnosis and treatment of speech and


hearing disorders
also includes communicative disorders
of the process underlying speech,
swallowing or chewing
purpose is to restore partial to the
highest level of communicative
functioning in relation to his nee
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unit is also concerned with diagnosis
and treatment of hearing impaired
carries diagnostic evaluation of
patients with auditory problems
It also determines effective
conservation, habitative and
rehabilitation programs
Hearing and speech is found to affect
one out of ten patients.

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Goals of speech therapy:
To assess and diagnosis speech and
language disorders,
To improve intelligibility of speech.
To improve muscle function of oral
mechanism
To provide alternate methods of
communication for who will not gain
normal speech

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To provide information to the
patients and relatives about patient
illness.
To counsel the patient and their
families regarding speech and
language disorders
Hearing loss
is the inability to hear auditory
signals less than 2.5dl in frequency
range of 250 to 800 Hz

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Itoccurs when ear is not sensitive to
what it should be
Basic handling tools of different
frequencies to determine the type of
hearing losses
From this a record of patients hearing
called audiogram is taken
Modern audiology department has
equipments like impedance
audiometer, response audiometer
etc
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Goals of audiology:
To elevate degree and type of
hearing impairments.
Based on diagnosis recommend
appropriate rehabilitative programs
To provide consultation and
evaluation of disease condition to
patient and families

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Hearing loss can be helped out with
medical treatment, surgical treatment
of hearing aids
Hearing and speech has close relation
because hearing is normal way to
understand speech
Location:
need not be in the prime location
Traditionally it is a part of ENT
department
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Besides ENT it has interactions with
many departments like paediatrics,
neurology, physical medicine etc.

Design: experts have to be consulted


with sound proofing room of
audiological assessment where
sensitive tests are done.

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Facilities: The following facilities are
needed
Reception and control room
Waiting area
Office room and administrative area.
Sound treatment room
Audiological assessment room
Therapy room
Store room

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Organisation:
key person in the unit is speech
pathologist and audiologist.
Speech pathologist diagnosis and
treatment of speech therapy
Audiologists is treatment and
diagnosis fo hearing impaired
AIIMS, Speech and Hearing Institute in
Mysore train speech pathologists
andaudiologists
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