Overview

The workbook has activities and questions designed related to concepts and procedures traditionally covered in introductory hearing science and clinical audiology courses. This workbook is designed for undergraduate students in speech and hearing and students beginning graduate studies in audiology.

The workbook includes activities such as drawing labeling diagrams, drawing waveforms, calculating frequencies/periods, amplitudes, and phases, interpreting audiograms, speech tests, tympanograms, acoustic reflexes, and auditory brainstem responses. There are also questions to reinforce knowledge about hearing disorders, as well as basic understanding of hearing aids and their fittings.

Audience

Primary Subject: Audiology / General
Audience Level: Textbook - Desk Copy

• Exercises and Questions
  • Anatomy of the Auditory and Vestibular Systems
  • Properties of Sound
  • Functions of the Auditory and Vestibular System
  • Pure-Tone Audiometry
  • Audiogram Interpretation
  • Speech Audiometry
  • Physiological Measures
  • Selected Disorders of the Auditory System
  • Hearing Aids
  • Audiology as a Career
• Answers
  • Anatomy of the Auditory and Vestibular Systems
  • Properties of Sound
  • Functions of the Auditory and Vestibular System
  • Pure-Tone Audiometry
  • Audiogram Interpretation
  • Speech Audiometry
  • Physiological Measures
  • Selected Disorders of the Auditory System
  • Hearing Aids
  • Audiology as a Career

About The Authors

Steven Kramer, Ph.D.

Steven Kramer, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University, where he has been a faculty member since 1985. He is also the Co-Director of the Audiology Doctoral (Au.D.) Program offered jointly by San Diego State University (SDSU) and the University California San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Kramer served as the department chair from 1990-2001. He obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees in audiology and hearing science from the University of Florida. He is a licensed and certified audiologist, and continues to be active in clinic. Before his appointment at SDSU, he was a clinical faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. His teaching assignments have included a wide array of courses, including diagnostics, medical audiology, evoked potentials, and anatomy/physiology. His research experience concentrates on diagnostics, including the use of auditory evoked potentials and otoacoustic emissions to describe normal auditory function, as well as the application of these measures for improving the evaluation of certain clinical impairments, especially infants at-risk for hearing loss.

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Lesli Guthrie, AuD

Lesli A. Guthrie, AuD, is an instructor and clinical perceptor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Diego State University.

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