Fluency Disorders: Theory and Practice. 3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

This course addresses childhood-onset and adult-onset fluency disorders. Content areas include the identification of typical and atypical dysfluency in children, the determination of various linguistic, developmental, physiological, and psychological aspects associated with developmental stuttering, and differential diagnosis of adult-onset neurogenic and psychogenic stuttering. Anatomical and functional changes in neuroimaging studies associated with fluent and stuttered speech are reviewed, and evidence-based treatment approaches are discussed.