Courses

Addresses the issue that 50 percent of all individuals experience disability in their lifetime. Introduces students to the social, cultural, psychological, economic, political, legal, and health-care issues related to society and individuals with disabilities. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies or ideals and values.

Surveys communication disorders, including hearing impairments, learning disabilities, and speech-language disorders, as well as an introduction to basic speech and hearing science.

Discusses how human communication (the process by which a thought is transmitted from the brain of a speaker to the brain of a listener) involves a complex interaction of acoustics, anatomy, physiology, neurobiology, and psychology. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.

Introduces basic sign vocabulary, grammatical structures of ASL, and the culture of deaf people. Classes are taught using ASL without the use of spoken English.

Develops more complex vocabulary and grammatical structures, and an understanding of deaf culture. Classes are taught using ASL without the use of spoken English. Prereq., SLHS 2305 or equivalent.

Continuation of SLHS 2315. Covers ASL literature, advanced grammatical structures, idiomatic expressions, and deaf culture. Prereq., SLHS 2315 or equivalent. Meets MAPS and core requirement for a foreign language.

Focuses on production of speech sounds, transcribing speech using the International Phonetic Alphabet, analyzing the acoustic properties of speech sounds, understanding how speech sounds vary depending on the context. Provides a foundation for understanding normal and atypical speech development, atypical speech problems and patterns, regional and foreign accents, and speech recognition by computers.

Focuses on the three main aspects of the hearing process: sounds in the environment (physical acoustics), sounds encoded within the auditory system (physiological acoustics), and perception of sound(psychological acoustics). Prereq., SLHS 2010.

Provides a basic understanding of the structural organization (anatomy), function (physiology), and neural controls of the structures used to produce speech, swallowing, respiration, and related behaviors in humans. Prereq., SLHS 2010.

Examines perceptions and attitudes regarding differences in communication as a function of cultural-linguistic diversity. Discusses implications of differing verbal and nonverbal communication styles of various cultural groups in terms of professional responsibilities. Prereq., upper-division standing and a minimum of 60 credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).

Studies selected topics in speech, language, hearing sciences, communication disorders, and other professional issues.

Language disorders can result from problems with cognitive, linguistic, and/or discourse processing. The theoretical framework of language dysfunction is addressed while drawing upon real clinical examples of language disorders that have been observed in children and adults. Prereq., SLHS 4560.

Emphasizes stuttering, clefting, voice disorders, andmotor disorders. Discusses research, evaluation, and treatment pertaining to each of these four disorder areas. Prereq., SLHS 3136.

Covers the development of language in childhood and into adult life, emphasizing the role of environmentand biological endowment in learning to communicate with words, sentences, and narratives. Prereqs. or coreqs., PSYC 1001, LING 2000. Same as LING 4560,Psyc 4560.

Studies basic principles and techniques of hearing evaluation, including pure-tone, speech, immittance, and advanced audiometry; hearing conservation in hospital, school, and industrial settings; and identification and evaluation of auditory pathologies. Required projects in screening and pure-tone audiometry. Prereq., SLHS 3136. Prerequisites: Restricted to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences majors only.

Covers basic principles and techniques related to the habilitation and rehabilitation of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing: amplification, speech, language, auditory, speech reading, and educational issues. Prereq., SLHS 4704.

May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prereq., departmental consent.

Introduces students to the clinical processes and key components of assessment and interventions. Explores the applications of the theoretical and scientific information to clinical settings. Students complete supervised observation of individuals with communication challenges. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) majors only.

Provides a supervised clinical experience with children who have communication challenges enrolled in the Child Learning Center programs; individuals demonstrating communication disorders as a cotherapist in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Center; or off-campus experience in an affiliated hospital or public school program. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., SLHS 4918 or instructor consent.

Familiarizes students with basic methodologies and research designs employed in the field. Focuses on critical reading of research papers and design of experiments. At least one research project is conducted and written as part of the course requirements. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours.

Provides an advanced understanding of the acoustics, aerodynamics, and biomechanics of speech production and related non-speech behaviors. Emphasizes the integration of theoretical constructs in the speech sciences with applied clinical and basic research. Prereq., SLHS 3136 or equivalent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.

Includes roles and responsibilities for the Speech Language Pathology Assistant (SLPA) working in the public schools, service delivery models, health and safety, screening assistive technology, intervention and self reflection and evaluation. Prereq., SLHS 4918. Must be accepted in the SLPA certification program.

Reviews models and theoretical perspectives regarding communication disorders with application to the clinical processes of assessment, intervention, counseling, and efficacy of intervention. Focuses on issues, challenges, and skills related to working with consumers of speech-language pathology and audiology services and their families, cultural competence, legal and ethical practices, teaming, and collaborative service delivery. Prereq., graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.

Introduces a foundational knowledge of language based learning and processing problems that impact foreign language learning in students with disabilities. Must be accepted into the MFL certificate program.

Provides knowledge about the legal bases for student accommodations for MFL learning disabilities, the administrative procedures and policies surrounding accommodations, assessment, advising and related implementation issues. Must be accepted into the MFL certificate program.