AUDIOMETRY COURSE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30028, 12 January 1963, Page 13

AUDIOMETRY COURSE

New Venture At Sumner

The first full-length course for Health Department andiometrists and public hospital bearing-rid techntetons will open at the School for the Deaf, Sumner, on Monday. About 20 parsons will attend, from ah parts of the South totand. This will be the first time hearing-aid tectinictens have been brought togetiirr since Government hearing-aid cltataa were eotabltatad in the tote IMO'a. The only previous time audioi metrtata have mot was re- ‘ centhr in Auckland, whan a . small pilot course run by Dr. ,A. CtKMtor, rm mill rg ! otoiogtat to the Haeta Doi parimant, and Dr. D* A. Dale, i princtari of foe Ketotan Sr+wJ (or foe Deaf, Arok- ’ land, ooovfrmed thorn of the ' need far a more coograhen- ' aive ventura. i Dr. Mflter wUI be stair, t man and chief lecturer of the : Sumner course, and Dr. Dale ) win also be a lecturer. The i third torturer wifi be Dr. M. Rodda, of the Untveraily of ’ Canterbury. Tbs warden wifi be Mr H. Ptcfrerk*. principal of foe Sumner School for i foe Deaf. i The ground to be covered ' by the course includes a gen- ! erri review of recent deI vetopmenta in the early aaoeri tainment of deritaaa ta ehili dren and ta adults, audiot metric tacttag, foe prevention i of daafrtaaa, rpeech tecta taductriri daafrsaaa, wvt beer- ’ tagwld knpnewnanta maini tananota and fauM ; There wfll riro be a discus- ■ afon of the work of the . Board of Health committee for servfoae for the deed. I The audtamcMUto wifi etay i on lhe course for two days, nd ihe > isrtog tat techi ntotana for four.