Provides students with background in the anatomical, physiological, and neurological bases of swallowing function and disorders across the lifespan. Etiological factors are presented, as well as various assessment tools and principles of treatment of swallowing disorders in children and adults. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Provides an overview of the application of current technology to alternative/augmentative communication. Emphasizes assessment and intervention with nonverbal children and adults with need for alternative/augmentative communication systems. Presents various technological devices and systems. Addresses system selection, programming, development, and integration of use in environmental contexts. Instructor consent required. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Explores the theoretical and clinical management of acquired cognitive disorders that impact communication. Includes basic functional neuroanatomy. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Presents the neural bases of normal and disordered speech motor control, teaches assessment and treatment of motor speech disorders of children and adults, and applies motor control research to clinical problems. Recommended requisite, undergraduate background in SLHS. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Provides overview of phonological development, perception, and production. Presents factors relatedto articulation and focuses on critical evaluation of traditional and phonological based assessment and intervention procedures. Includes coverage of phonological awareness, metaphonological skills as related to literacy. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Examines the anatomical and physiological bases for normal and disordered velopharyngeal and laryngeal function. Familiarizes students with evaluation and treatment of the speech of individuals with cleft lip and palate and laryngeal-based voice disorders. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Emphasizes evaluation and treatment of children and adults who stutter. Discusses and evaluates various stuttering intervention approaches. Also discusses counseling parents of young children who stutter. Familiarity with research is a secondary emphasis. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Provides an introduction to the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of speech production and perception.Considers how speech and language are represented in, and controlled by, the central nervous system. Emphasizes the mechanisms underlying the communication process and discusses relevant neuropathologies. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Provides an orientation to family-directed intervention in serving young children with disabilities and their families. Facilitates integration of medical, physiological, and theoretical perspectives with specific approaches to assessment and intervention. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Focuses on the nature, assessment, and treatment of learning disabilities and their relation to language disorders. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of SLHS 5242 (minimum grade D-).
Provides in-depth study of instrumentation used by audiologists for hearing aid evaluation and fitting, signal generation and modification, and signal measurement and calibration. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Provides a supervised clinical experience on campus in appraisal of speech, language, and learning disorders after training at the observational level. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Offers on-campus and off-campus supervised clinical practice in management of speech-language-hearing disorders in children and adults. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Provides clinical training in the on site Speech, Language and Hearing Center in skills including audiology identification, evaluation and management for adults and children with hearing loss. May be repeated up to 16 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of SLHS 6544 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Placement for a minimum of 12 hours per week for a total of 180 hours including 100 direct student contact hours under the supervision of a fully credentialed SLP, to fully develop requisite skills as an SLPA and become employed in a public school setting. Must be accepted into the SLPA certificate program. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of SLHS 4918 (minimum grade D-).
Provides clinical training in an off campus educational audiology facility in identification, evaluation and management for adults and children with hearing loss. Schedule is variable with a minimum requirement of 16 hours on rotation per week. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of SLHS 5918 and SLHS 6544 and SLHS 6614 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Provides clinical training in an off campus medical audiology facility in identification, evaluation and management for adults and children with hearing loss. Schedule is variable with a minimum requirement of 16 hours on rotation per week. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of SLHS 5918 and SLHS 6544 and SLHS 6614 (all minimum grade B). Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Studies selected topics related to the theory and management of communication disorders, and theoretical/scientific information related to speech, language, and hearing. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Provides advanced study in hearing science, including physical, physiological, and psychological acoustics of both normal and impaired auditory systems. Prereq., graduate standing in SLHS; undergraduate course work in biology or anatomy.
Overview of ethics and ethical issues in the profession of audiology. Topics to be discussed include code of ethics by professions, approaches to analyzing ethical dilemmas, ethics in relationships with manufacturers, and ethical considerations inteaching, clinical practice and research. Recommended requisite, undergraduate background in SLHS. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Overview of professional issues related to the profession of audiology. Topics to be discussed include certification, licensure, professional associations, infection control, practice management, federal regulations related to audiology, professional communications and professional relationships. Recommended requisite, undergraduate background in SLHS. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Advanced study on the current science surrounding hearing assessment of adults across the age span. Includes theoretical foundations and clinical applications. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
