Coursera – Deafness in the 21st Century

Coursera – Deafness in the 21st Century

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Description

Communication is central to human experience. For those who are born deaf this is the area most at risk. Unless you have personal experience of deafness in your work or a family member who is deaf you may never have thought about this topic. As deafness is invisible the 350 million individuals worldwide who are deaf, half of this is preventable, are at the fringe of many societies.

This short course will allow you to consider health, social and societal issues in relation to deafness. You will understand how the hearing system works and what can go wrong, particular challenges in low and middle income countries, about screening and diagnostic services, amplification including solar powered aids, challenges to inter-personal communication, sign language and positive stories about what deaf individual can and do achieve. This will challenge stereotypes and will promote a positive message about deafness in the 21st century.

Syllabus

1. Deafness: a global perspective of the silent epidemic
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

Facilitating communication

6. Possible futures: given support, what can deaf children and adults achieve?
Case studies of possible futures
Focus on international projects

Health and Medical course

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Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease,
typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Medicine has been around for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and
philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism.
In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).
While stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice, the knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science.