Online Courses Handbook 2003

301701 (v.2) Speech and Hearing Science 670

Area:	School of Psychology
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	50.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	301593 (v.2) Human Communication Science 570 or any previous version
Co Requisite(s):	301700 (v.2) Human Communication Science 670
The auditory pathway from sound reception to speech perception. Hearing and auditory processing disorders - assessments, the impact on development and maintenance of speech and language, treatment and management issues. Acoustic analysis of prosody and voice quality, analysis techniques for speech segmentation. Physiological measurement of speech production. Psychoacoustics. Human and machine speech recognition. Speech synthesis. Audiological screening.