Language Disorders in School-Age Children

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: PHAL 6115. This course addresses the nature and characteristics of language disorders in school -age children, including adolescents. The course discusses contrasting views on the study of language problems, examines the relationship between oral language development and literacy skills, and studies the language characteristics of children with specific language impairments, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, hearing impairment, auditory processing problems, and acquired aphasi a. The course addresses evidence-based practice procedures for the assessment and intervention of language learning problems in school-age children including those who are from culturally -linguistically diverse groups. In addition, the course peruses the l aws that regulate services to children with language learning problems. Different instructional strategies are used, lectures, group discussions, interactive modules, videoconferencing, and synchronous sessions. This is a hybrid course. PHAL 6235 - Seminar: Evidence-Based Practice in Speech-Language Pathology. One (1) credit.