Michael R. Chial, Ph.D.

Professor of Audiology

Department of Communicative Disorders
1975 Willow Drive
Madison, WI 53706

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Phone:	(608) 262-3951
Email address:	mrchial@facstaff.wisc.edu
WWW URL address (this page):	http://www.comdis.wisc.edu/facstaff/mrchial/index.htm

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Michael Chial earned a bachelor's degree from Mankato State College (now Minnesota State University) in 1965, MA and MS degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968, and a Ph.D. in communicative disorders from UW-Madison in 1973. His teaching and research are in hearing science, laboratory instrumentation, technical calibration and standards, digital speech synthesis, occupational hearing conservation, forensic audiology, and quantitative assessments of clinical decision-making. Consulting clients include IBM, Apple Computer, the Michigan Department of State Police, the Attorney General of Michigan, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, the U.S. Army, state departments of public health, and municipalities, federal agencies, private attorneys, professional associations,, universities, and corporations. Chial has abiding interests in computer applications in communication sciences and disorders, and in instructional development.

Course Syllabuses

CD 700 Audiology for Speech-Language Pathologists (Summer, 2004)

CD 854 & CD 855 Electroacoustics, and Calibration (Fall, 2005)

CD 833 Occupational Audiology (Spring, 2006)

PDF Downloads (printable)

Poor Man's Tour of Medical Terminology; Poor Man's Tour of Legal Terminology; Poor Man's Tour of Clinical Decision Analysis Terminology; Poor Man's Tour of Rules of Engagement for Classroom Debates; Poor Man's Tour of Physical Quantities and Units; Poor Man's Tour of the Decibel; Poor Man's Tour of Basic Electronics; Poor Man's Tour of Basic Electronic Measurement Devices; Poor Man's Tour of Electronic Measurement Systems; Poor Man's Tour of Hearing Protection Devices; Tips for Desk Top Presentations; Tips for Building Visuals for Document Cameras; Tips for Video Classroom Presenters; Tips for Visual Support of Oral Presentations; Forensic Audiology: Selected References; Headband Axial Force Measurement Tool

On-Line Articles

Three Views of Marketing

Ethics, Best Practice and the Professoriate

Conveying Expectations about Professional Behavior

Counseling Audiogram

Counseling Audiogram Notes
A Post-Modern Fairy Tale for Academics

URLs (Links)

Internet Sites for Hearing Conservation
Annotated Web Sites in Aural Rehabilitation

Other

Evaluation Scale for Essay Questions (checklist)

Power Point presentations--these look better with MS Internet Explorer

Preparing and Presenting Poster Sessions

Consortia, Collaboration and Change

Technical Standards and Politics

The Audiologist as Expert Witness

Hearing Conservation Rule

A Curly Tail of Hearing Conservation

Atilla the Hun and William Roberts on Leadership

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