Overview
Description
Overview of the nature, assessment, and treatment of communication and language impairments in children.
Requirements
Corequisites
SPA 370SPA 400SPA 421SPA 466ENG 411BENG 412A
Original catalog text
Corequisites
Corequisite(s): SPA 370; SPA 400; SPA 421; SPA 466; ENG 411B or ENG 412A.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate knowledge of the etiology and specific characteristics of language and communicative impairments in children.
- define and describe linguistic and communicative characteristics of a variety of childhood language disorders including, but not limited to specific language impairment, mental retardation, hearing impairment, autism.
- identify language and communicative impairments as primary or secondary to a disorder.
- demonstrate knowledge of methods of prevention, assessment, and intervention for language disorders in children.
- perform language analysis of both a child with normal language and a language disorder.
- demonstrate a cursory understanding of diagnostic and intervention techniques applied to children with language disorders.