SPEECH SCIENCE & CLINICAL PHONETICS

Catalog description

This course introduces speech science and clinical transcription for future professionals in communication sciences and disorders. Theories, measurement, and analysis of speech production using perceptual skills and instrumentation will be included. Training in the skill of phonetic transcription using the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association will be provided. Students will learn to transcribe normal and disordered speech. Considerations of dialectal variations related to culturally and linguistically diverse populations will be included.