Audiology: Software Approach

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Interactive Audiology is a CD-ROM developed to assist both undergraduate and graduate students in audiology courses and professionals wishing to review their knowledge of audiology. The best and most modern method for reviewing knowledge of audiology and preparing for exams, this CD-ROM is to assure that the student/clinician has understood the concepts of audiology needed for university, state, and national examinations. A significant advantage to the digital presentation of this material is that users can benefit from repeated use. This CD features a number of interactive features. Users can navigate through the CD and complete exercises that involve text entry, drag-and-drop content/objects, vocabulary skills, and multiple choice selection. Multiple choice questions are presented in a random fashion for repeated use. Users benefit from confirmation, feedback on demand, and further elaboration of content materials presented in exercises. They can carry out such exercises as labeling, matching, drawing audiograms, diagramming, outline completions, working crossword puzzles, etc. Users can also determine the correct diagnosis of 15 different hearing disorders (lesion sites) based on history, audiometric information and other clues. They can then justify their case management decisions and receive feedback on the accuracy of these decisions. A series of demonstrations in the form of short videos illustrate a wide variety of audiological issues that would require many pages of text to describe. The cross-platform CD-ROM can be used with many types of computers.