Four-year students of the Faculty of Special Education today held a seminar lesson initiated by Gohar Mushegyan, a lecturer of the Chair of Human and Animal Physiology.
During the event, the students referred to the physiology, anatomy and pathology of hearing, speech and visual organs.
With the help of different images, they presented the morpho-functional parameters of the ear, lesions, clinical indicators and preventive measures.
The images helped the future special pedagogues form an idea about the structure of the auditory analyzer, as well as factors that damage the eardrum and block the listening passage.
Present at the seminar were also students from other faculties who watched videos showing methods of removal of foreign bodies from the ear and clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of inner ear diseases.
The participants presented through an in-depth analysis the ways to restore hearing, especially with the help of a cochlear implant, its necessity, advantages and disadvantages, mechanism of the surgically implanted electronic device, operation of the articulatory apparatus, structure of lips and vocal chords and their clinical classification.
The reporters also spoke about recovery operations to address various problems connected with hearing, lips and articulatory apparatus and referred to common eye diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, and color-blindness.
In their reports, the students enumerated the causes of these diseases, trying to show their coursemates the ways and methods to avoid the aforesaid diseases.
The seminar lesson was attended by the Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geography, Svetlana Hovakimyan, Dean of the Faculty of Special Education, Armenuhi Avagyan, lecturers and students.
