Speech and Language Development

Catalog description

This course focuses on speech and language development across life stages and cultures. This course covers theories of language acquisition and stages of development in the prenatal, postnatal, and newborn periods moving through the lifespan to include the toddler, preschool, school-age and adult years. In addition, this course will focus on the definition of the specific components of speech and language (phonology, syntax-morphology, semantics, and pragmatics), with emphasis on procedures for description and analysis commonly used in communication sciences.