This course provides a foundation in the research basis for the auditory-verbal approach to working with children with hearing loss, beginning with the theory of the acoustic basis of speech perception. The student will be able to 1) label the major anatomical structures responsible for speech production, 2) determine what speech sounds are accessible by evaluating an audiogram using knowledge of speech acoustics, 3) categorize phonemes and 4) transcribe speech
using the International Phonetic Alphabet.