The examination may include questions relating to developmental stages, the basic psychological processes including cognition, perception, neuro- psychology, conditioning, motivation, memory and memory disorders, personal and social influences, tests of ability and achievement, the biological factors in behaviour, non-organic deafness, non-verbal com- munication, the psychology of deafness, the principles of psychometric measurement, and psychophysics.
BOOKS Recommended for reference:
Elkind D and Flavell J H eds Studies in Cognitive Development, OUP 1969
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McNeil D The Acquisition of Language, Harper & Row 1970 Myklebust H Psychology of Deafness, Grune & Stratton 1971
Sartain A Q North A J et al Psychology Understanding Human Be- haviour 4th ed, McGraw Hí11 1973
Tervoort B T Development Features of Visual Communication, North Holland 1975
Wright D S et al Introductory Psychology An Experimental Approach, Penguin 1972
EXAMINATION One 2-hours' paper, one 3-hours' paper and during the course.
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862. AUDIOLOGYEDUCATIONAL AUDIOLOGY .
The examination may include questions relating to psychology of deaf- ness, role of the family, the deaf child at home and at school, parent guidance, auditory training, educational guidance and school place- ment, vocational guidance for the deaf, hearing aids for home and school and language assessment in the classroom.
BOOKS Recommended for reference:
Dale D M C Deaf Children at Home and at School LUP 1967 Ewing A and Ewing E Teaching Deaf Children to talk, Manchester UP
1971
Parsons M Helping Our Deaf Children, NZ Ccl Educational Res 1973 Sanders D A Aural Rehabilitation, Prentice Hall 1971
Watson T J The Education of Nearing Handicapped Children, LUP 1967 EXAMINATION One 2-hours' paper and during the course.
GENERAL AUDIOLOGY
The examination may include questions relating to audiometry, assess- ment of non-organic hearing loss, electrocochleography, auditory evoked responses, electroencephalography, psychogalvanometry, specialized tests of central nervous dysfunction, tests of middle ear malfunction, history taking and clinical examination, the differential diagnosis of deafness, hearing aid design, hearing aid fitting and selection, ethics.
BOOKS (а) Prescribed textbooks
Davis H and Silverman S R Hearing and Deafness 3rd ed, Holt Rine- hart & Winston 1970
Gerber S E Introductory Hearing Science Physical and Psychological Concepts, Saunders 1974
Katz J Handbook of Clinical Audiology, Williams & Wilkins 1972 (b) Recommended for reference
Bradford L J ed Physiological Measures of the Audio Vestibular Sys- tem, Academic 1975
Gulick W L Hearing Physiology and Psychophysics, OUP 1971 Hirsh I J The Measurement of Nearing, McGraw-Hill 1952
Jerger J Modern Developments in Audiology 2nd ed, Academic 1974 Rose D E Audiological Assessment, Prentice-Hall 1972
EXAMINATION One 3-hours' paper and during the course; viva voce examination.
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GERIATRIC AUDIOLOGY
The examination may include questions relating to the ageing process, hearing aids for the elderly, aural rehabilitation, speech reading, clinical assessment of the elderly and presbyacusis.
BOOKS Recommended for reference
Brocklehurst J C Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerantology, Churchill Livingstone 1973
Davis H and Silverman S Nearing and Deafness, Holt Rinehart &
Winston 1970
Liden ed Geriatric Audiology, Almquist & Wiksell 1968 Katz J Handbook of Clinical Audiology, Williams & Wilkins 1972 EXAMINATION One 2-hours' paper and during the course.
HEARING AIDS
The examination may Include questions relating to the design and operation of hearing aids, hearing aid characteristics, selection and evaluation of hearing aids, binaural listening, hearing aids for home and school, counselling and aural rehabilitation.
BOOKS Recommended for reference
Davis H and Silverman S Hearing and Deafness 3rd ed, Holt Rinehart
& Winston 1970
Gerber S E Introductory Hearing Science Physical and Psychological Concepts, Saunders 1974
Victoreen J A Basic Principles in Optometry, Thomas 1973 EXAMINATION One 2-hours' paper and during the course.
INDUSTRIAL AUDIOLOGY
The examination may include questions relating to instrumentation, noise abatement, hearing conservation programmes, acoustic trauma, hearing handicap, noise and communication and medico-legal aspects.
BOOKS Recommended for reference:
Burns W Noise and len, Murray 1968
Kryter K D The Effects of Noise on Man, Academic 1970 Robinson D W Occupational Hearing Loss, Academic 1971 Sataloff J and Michael P L Hearing Conservation, Thomas 1973
Ward W D and Fricke J E Noise as a Public Health Hazard, Amer Speech & Hearing Assoc 1969
EXAMINATION One 2-hours' paper and during the course.
PAEDIATRIC AUDIOLOGY
The examination may include questions relating to the development of the infant and young child, emotional and social development of children with impaired hearing, causes of deafness, hearing assessment in in- fants and children, at risk registers, genetics, communication dis- orders and auditory information processing, mental retardation, cereb- ral palsy, autism and psychoses, central language disorders, psycho- genic deafness, deprivation and the multiply handicapped deaf child.
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BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbooks
Illingworth R G The Development of the Infant and Young Child Nor- mal and Abnormal 4th ed, Livingstone 1973
Sheridan M D Children's Developmental Progress, NFER Pub 1973 (b) Recommended for reference
Ferguson C F and Kendig E L Paediatric Otolaryngology Vol II, Saund- ers 1972
Freeman P Understanding the Deaf Blind Child, Heinemann 1975 Fulton P R and Lloyd L L Auditory Assessment of the Difficult to Test,
Williams & Wilkins 1975
Gerwin K and Glorig A Detection of Hearing Loss and Ear Diseases in Children. Thomas 1974
Northern J L and Downs M Hearing in Children, Williams & Wilkins 1974
Taylor I G Neurological Mechanisms of Hearing and Speech in Child- ren. Manchester UP 1964
Whetnall E and Fry D B The Deaf Child, Heinemann 1971
EXAMINATION One 3-hours paper and during the course, viva voce examination.
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
The examination may include questions relating to anatomy, physiology, pathology of the vocal tract, acoustic phonetics, linguistics, psycho- linguistics, language of the deaf child, speech pathology and rehabili- tation.
BOOKS (a) Prescribed textbooks
Denes P and Pinson E The Speech Chain, Anchor Science Study Ser- ies
Miller G A Language and Communication, McGraw-Hill 1957 Slobin D I Psycholinguistics, Scott Foresman 1971
(b) Recommended for reference
Adams P Language in Thinking; Penguin 1972
Dale P S Language Development Structure and Function, Dryden 1972 McNeil D The Acquisition of Language, Harper & Row 1970
Travis L E ed Handbook of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Appleton Century Crofts 1971
EXAMINATION One 2-hours' paper and during the course.
577-864. OTOLARYNGOLOGY
The examination may include questions relating to pathology of the ear, methods of clinical examination, diseases of the external ear, diseases of the middle ear, diseases of the inner ear, congenital deaf- ness, otoscieriosis, presbyacusis, acoustic neuroma, Meneres Disease, vestibular disorders, otoneurology.
BOOKS
Recommended for reference.
Maloney W H Otolaryngology, Hagerstewn 1972 Mawsom R S Diseases of the Ear 3rd ed, Lewis 1974
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and during the course viva voce examination.
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GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SELECTION FOR FIRST-YEAR COURSES
Selection Committee
The selection committee for each course shall consist of the Dean of the Faculty or the Chairman of the Board of Studies concerned and such other members as may be approved by the Professorial Board on the recommendation of that Faculty or Board of Studies. If any member of a selection committee is unable to act, the Chairman of the Professorial Board may approve the appointment of a substitute, on the recommenda- tion of the Dean of the Faculty or the Chairman of the Board of Studies concerned.
Each selection committee shall have power to reach decisions on a majority vote and shall report its decisions to the Professorial Board as soon as possible. Such report shall include a list of those applicants who were selected and enrolled.
Applications
Applicants for selection in a quota must submit applications on the prescribed form by the date set down in the list of Principal Dates—
the Friday nearest 1 November.
No application for selection lodged after the due date shall be considered unless the selection committee concerned is satisfied that special cir- cumstances exist justifying the late application.
Persons of aboriginal extraction seeking admission to the University will, if they so wish, be considered by the Professorial Board under Regulation 1.1.2. Persons wishing to be considered under this regulation should apply to the Registrar.
Selection
1. Each selection committee shall be responsible for selecting, up to the number fixed by Council, those applicants who are considered most likely to pursue successfully the course concerned.
2. (a) Selection shall be based primarily on academic merit as judged by reference to results in the Victorian Higher School Certificate Examination. Provided that the qualifications of the applicants who have not attempted the Victorian HSC Examination shall be equated as far as possible with the HSC Examination.
(b) Selection committees may also take into account:
(i) The results of any subsequent examinations attempted.
(ii) The age of applicants when attempting the examination under consideration.
(iii) Any illness, war or military service, or other serious cause, as a result of which the studies or performance of an appli- cant have, in the opinion of the committee, been hampered.
(iv) Physical handicaps or defects.
(v) The number of years spent preparing for the Victorian Higher School Certificate Examination. This is to be considered only where the original scoring puts a candidate who did not sit in his first year of preparation for the HSC in a mar- ginal position in the order-of-merit list.
(vi) Information revealed by such interviews as the selection committee may conduct.
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(vii) Any other factors approved by the Professorial Board and the Council on the recommendation of the Faculty or Board of Studies concerned.
(c) Headmaster's reports shall not be taken into consideration, ex- cept in cases of illness or where an applicant has applied for a place in the succeeding year's quota.
(d) No weight shall be given to the order of an applicant's course preferences, i.e., a first preference of one applicant is not to rate above a lower preference of another candidate with a higher selection score.
3. In assessing academic merit as judged by reference to results in the Victorian Higher School Certificate Examination, the formula adopted by the Victorian Universities Admissions Committee shall be used.
Provided that:
(i) Prerequisites approved by the Professorial Board and the Council may be included in the "best four subjects".
(ii) Where prerequisite subjects must be included in the basic quota score, an applicant who has had more than one sitting at the Higher School Certificate Examination shall be credited with the best of his prerequisites from any sitting, with the proviso that, in order to be credited with the marks of a prerequisite taken at any sitting, a candidate must have passed in three subjects other than English at that sitting.
(iii) special debits and bonuses may be applied if stated in special principles of selection recommended by a Faculty or Board of Studies and approved by the Professorial Board and the Council.
(iv) A selection committee shall have the right to consider an appli- cant's record as a whole in deciding between candidates near the borderline.
4. Under-age applicants in the selection range must be interviewed by or on behalf of the selection committee concerned before being selected.
5. In the absence of special reasons, applicants for admission to a quota who have not yet attempted a university course shall be preferred to graduates.
6. The percentage of overseas applicants admitted to any course should not normally exceed by more than 10 per cent the annual average per- centage of such students admitted to that course over the past three years. No overseas applicant shall be selected in preference to an Aus- tralian applicant of equal or superior merit. ("Overseas" means a student whose home is overseas and who either has presented for the Victorian Higher School Certificate Examination or has been admitted ad eundem statur.)
7. If an applicant is not selected for the course of his first choice, his application must be considered for the course of his second and, if necessary, subsequent choice and he must be selected in preference to any other applicant of inferior academic merit.
8. An order of merit shall be prepared according to the above prin- ciples, and places up to the number fixed by the Council shall be filled in order from this list.
Reservation of places in quotas
Places in the succeeding year's quota may be reserved for such appli- cants and in such numbers as may be decided by the Faculty or Board 174
of Studies in accordance with its principles of selection on request, for applicants in the top 80% of those whose marks are above the cut-off point for admission to the quota concerned and, if there are special circumstances, for applicants in the lower 20%.
Students accepted for fixed courses
Once a student is accepted for a fixed course (that is, one for which there are no alternative subjects) and if he is not later prevented by failure from continuing in the course, the University must provide facili- ties for the student to complete the course as planned, should he so request.
Note: Students should consult the appropriate Faculty handbook for special principles of selection, if any.
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