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Train adults with hearing impairment to maximise visual and auditory
cues
Level
6
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: develop speechreading
and auditory training programmes; deliver a speechreading training
programme; deliver an auditory training programme; and evaluate a
speechreading and an auditory training programme.
Subfield
Community Support
Domain
Hearing Therapy
Status
Registered
Status date
20 May 2008
Date version published
20 May 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2013
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry
and teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Community Support Services Industry Training
Organisation Limited
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0024
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
The performance of all elements of this unit standard must comply with any relevant
cultural or legislative requirements including the rights and responsibilities of people
receiving services or supports as outlined in the Health and Disability Commissioner
(Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996.
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This unit standard cannot be assessed against in a simulated environment. It is
required that people seeking credit for this unit standard demonstrate competence
and be assessed in the workplace. This can be through paid or unpaid employment,
or in placements in a service provider workplace negotiated by an education
provider.
3
An ability to integrate theory with practice in the workplace must be demonstrated.
This will call for a variety of modes of assessment and forms of evidence to show
consistency of performance across a range of situations.
4
Definition
The standard procedures referred to in this unit standard are documented in
Recommended Best Practice (section 2), Location Manual, National Audiology
Centre, Auckland Healthcare Audiology Services, 2000, or any subsequent
amendments. These are available from the National Audiology Centre, 98 Remuera
Road, Auckland or Careerforce, PO Box 25-255, Christchurch.
5
Evidence is required of a speechreading programme and an auditory training
programme.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Develop speechreading and auditory training programmes.
Performance criteria
1.1
Rehabilitation needs of the individual, and/or group, are determined through the
use of assessment tools in accordance with standard procedures.
Range
assessment tools may include but are not limited to – sentence
test materials, word test materials.
1.2
Goals of the speechreading and auditory training programme are established in
accordance with the identified rehabilitation needs of the individual and/or
group.
1.3
Content of the speechreading and auditory training programmes is developed in
accordance with the identified rehabilitation needs of the individual, and/or
group.
Range
speechreading – lip patterns, speech movements, visual cues,
words, sentences, contextual cues, situational variability.
auditory – speech sounds, words, sentences, contextual cues,
situational variability.
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Element 2
Deliver a speechreading training programme.
Performance criteria
2.1
Method of delivery of the training programme matches the identified
rehabilitation needs of the individual and/or group.
Range
2.2
synthetic, analytic.
Method of delivery matches the identified capabilities of the individual and/or
group.
Range
learner level – beginner, intermediate, advanced;
capabilities – hearing levels, perceptual skills, cognitive skills.
Element 3
Deliver an auditory training programme.
Performance criteria
3.1
Method of delivery of the training programme matches the identified
rehabilitation needs of the individual and/or group.
3.2
Method of delivery and content matches the identified capabilities of the
individual and/or group.
Range
learner level – beginner, intermediate, advanced;
capabilities – hearing levels, perceptual skills, cognitive skills.
Element 4
Evaluate a speechreading and an auditory training programme.
Performance criteria
4.1
Evaluation determines if goals are met and that they match the identified
rehabilitation needs of the individual and/or group.
4.2
Evaluation determines any deficiencies in the programmes in terms of the
identified rehabilitation needs of the individual and/or group.
4.3
A plan is drawn up enabling deficiencies to be rectified, if required, in terms of
the evaluation.
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Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Community Support Services Industry Training Organisation Limited
enquiries@cssito.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit
standard.
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