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Situation of Audiology
This page contains
bits of information about the situation of audiology in several countries.
Denmark
| Ture
Andersen, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and Audiological Clinic,
University Hospital, Odense |
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The
educational program of Audiology is described here: http://www.sdu.dk/Uddannelse/Uddannelsesoversigt/Bachelor/Audiologi.aspx
(In Danish). From September 2008 a M.Sc. education in Technical
Audiology will start as a continuation of the Bachelor education.
The Engineering Acoustics MSc program (described here)
will be part of the collaboration between SDU (University of Southern
Denmark) in Odense and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) in
Lyngby.
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| Torben
Poulsen, Acoustic Technology, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) |
At Acoustic
Technology we will collaborate with SDU on the audiology education,
especially on Masters' projects and possible PhD-projects. We also
have some contact to the education at University of Copenhagen. See
http://audiologopaedi.ku.dk/
and http://studier.ku.dk/studier_a-z/audiologopaedi/
(both sites in Danish). This education is more language/speech related
than technical.
The Engineering Acoustics MSc program (described here)
will be part of the collaboration between SDU (University of Southern
Denmark) in Odense and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) in Lyngby.
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Serbia
| Branka
Mikic |
There
are basically two types of university degree in audiology. The first
one is audiological physician, which are medical doctors with four
years of specialization in otorhinolaryngology followed by two years
of postgraduate studies in audiology. The curriculum is medically
orientated with additional information on acoustics, hearing aids
and cochlear implants as well as rehabilitation of hearing impaired
people. There are 35-40 audiologist in Serbia (7 million population).
The other type of education is four and a half year study of surdoaudiology
in the Faculty of special education and rehabilitation. During the
studies they get medical, technical and pedagogical knowledge so that
they can become clinical audiologist involved in audiological diagnostic
procedures, fitting of hearing aids and cochlear implants, rehabilitation
of hearing impaired children and teaching in schools for deaf. There
25-30 students enrolling in such studies each year. |
Slowenia
| Jagoda
Votovec |
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audiology dept. in Ljubljana, Slovenija, is interested in University
education in audiology but at the moment in our country there is a
"transition period" in health system and institutions and
we could not get the agreement to participate. |
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