Counseling Skills for Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Catalog description

Provide an overview of the basic interviewing and counseling skills to help communicative sciences and disorders (CSD) students achieve success when working with individuals and family members exhibiting communication disorders. To effectively deal with roadblocks to success in treatment, CSD students must develop a therapeutic relationship with clients both for obtaining relevant information about the disorder (interviewing) and for helping clients reduce barriers to their success in treatment (counseling).