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Source : www.coursera.org
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6 séquences
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Niveau : Introductif
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Maladies et troubles
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Langue : Anglais
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12 heures de cours
En résumé
If you want to know more about deafness in low and middle income countries this MOOC is for you. It is primarily aimed at those working as health or education professionals, government officials, support workers, NGOs and anyone with a family or personal interest in deafness. It aims to improve knowledge and understanding of this topic.
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Le programme
1. Deafness: a global perspective
of the silent epidemic
2. Preventable cause of deafness
3. Identification and assessment of deafness and amplification
4. Family Centred Early Intervention
5. Fostering interpersonal communication across language modalities
6. Possible futures: given support, what can deaf children and adults achieve?
- The global inequalities and implications for deaf children, young people
and adults.
- An introduction to the hearing system and basic physiology.
- Understanding the auditory system.
2. Preventable cause of deafness
- Epidemiology of hearing loss in low and middle income countries.
- Prevention of hearing impairment and disability, including noise damage,
ototoxicity, age related hearing loss, middle ear disease and measles, mumps,
rubella and malaria as causes of deafness.
3. Identification and assessment of deafness and amplification
- Screening, diagnostic assessment, the potential and challenge of
amplification.
- The role of NGOs and manufacturing companies in provision of
amplification.
- Examples of practice.
4. Family Centred Early Intervention
- Consideration of the international consensus statement on family centred
early intervention.
- Examples of how this can apply in a low income countries.
- Developing early communication and literacy skills, empowering parents and working with the Deaf community.
5. Fostering interpersonal communication across language modalities
- Use of signed languages
- Speechreading
- Spoken language
- Facilitating communication
6. Possible futures: given support, what can deaf children and adults achieve?
- Case studies of possible futures
- Focus on international projects
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Les intervenants
- Helen Chilton - School of Psychological Science
- Wendy Mccracken - School of Psychological Science
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Le concepteur

Tracing its roots back to 1824, the University of Manchester is home to almost 40,000 students. The University has three Nobel laureates among its current staff – more than any other British university - and a total of 25 Nobel laureates have come from our past and present students and staff. We have three main goals: to undertake world-class research; to deliver an outstanding learning and student experience; and to be socially responsible.
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La plateforme

Coursera est une entreprise numérique proposant des formations en ligne ouverte à tous fondée par les professeurs d'informatique Andrew Ng et Daphne Koller de l'université Stanford, située à Mountain View, Californie.
Ce qui la différencie le plus des autres plateformes MOOC, c'est qu'elle travaille qu'avec les meilleures universités et organisations mondiales et diffuse leurs contenus sur le web.
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