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  • 3.00 Credits

    Observe a certified Speech-Language Pathologist (CCC-SLP) or an Audiologist (CCC-A) in an educational or health care setting. Students gain practical experiences as observers and/or assistants to professionals that are consistent with duties of a communication assistant as described by the Pennsylvania Licensure Law. Experiences facilitate integration of undergraduate coursework in speech pathology and audiology with professional activities in the field.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Discusses clinical process in preparation for provision of speech and language therapy services. Content includes clinical procedures, documentation processes and standards, national certification and state licensure requirements, and PA Department of Education requirements. Clinical requirements include 3 hours of clinical data collection and at least one evaluation completed as a member of a diagnostic team.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Discusses the relationship between culture and communication and the many issues related to providing clinical services to individuals of various cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Develop awareness of cultural patterns, verbal and nonverbal codes, and the roles they play in the development of intercultural interpersonal relationships. Also discusses issues related to gender identity and expression. Required course for students in the MS-SLP program.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Discusses primary disorders of language in adults associated with focal brain damage with emphasis on aphasias. Etiologies and characteristics of language/nonlanguage disturbances associated with lesions to the dominant and non-dominant hemispheres are discussed. Principles and methods of prevention, assessment, intervention, and counseling are presented.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Discusses normal language acquisition and identify developmental language delays, disorders, and differences in young children (birth to age five years). Theories of language acquisition and their application to assessment and intervention principles and methods are discussed. Family, cultural, and educational issues are addressed.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Discusses development, diagnosis, and treatment of stuttering, and differentially diagnose developmental stuttering, cluttering, neurogenic stuttering, psychogenic stuttering, and language-based disfluencies. This course also introduces students to counseling for individuals with communication and swallowing disorders and their caregivers. Key approaches and frameworks in addition to best practices for referral and coordination of care with mental health professionals are addressed.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Discusses theoretical and clinical foundations needed to adequately evaluate and treat children with speech sound disorders including residual speech sound errors, phonological delays and disorders, and childhood apraxia of speech with an emphasis on phonological disorders. Phonological process and distinctive feature-based systems of analysis will be presented along with traditional and dynamic assessment procedures. Interventions will include traditional phonetic, minimal pair language-based, and cognitive approaches that target system-wide phonological change.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prepares students in all aspects of clinical management to meet the Professional Practice Competencies and to serve individuals with communication and swallowing disorders in the Bloomsburg University Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic and off-campus contracted sites. Students acquire necessary knowledge and skills in preparation for their field experiences in the professional community.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores normal language acquisition in children from age five years through adolescence and the effects of language disorders on academic performance, especially literacy skills. Principles and methods of curriculum-based assessment and intervention are presented. Cultural and educational issues are addressed.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores motor speech disorders across all ages. The course addresses the typical motor control and motor execution aspects of speech production and covers the etiologies of, assessment of, and treatments appropriate for various forms of motor speech impairments. It covers the importance of team interventions for the assessment and treatment of motor speech disorders.
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