CDS 532 Language Disorders in School-Aged Children and Adolescents
Course Description
This course is designed for graduate students in training
for the profession of speech-language pathology. The course covers issues
related to language disorders in school-aged children and adolescents. These
include definitions and theoretical considerations of language-learning disabled
students. Specific areas of study include reading and literacy deficits, oral
language deficits, deficits in word knowledge and retrieval, narratives, pragmatic,
discourse, metalinguistic and metacognitive correlates. Issues that impact
on the communicative and academic functioning of this population will also
be discussed and include: working memory, attention, executive functions,
and auditory processing. In this course students become familiar with commercially-available
software designed to augment therapy for language and literacy. Service delivery
models and intervention strategies are also be discussed.
Suzanne Hungerford, Ph.D., CCC-SLP