This course is taken in the junior year. The course involves an overview of normal language development in children, beginning in infancy and going through the school years. The class discusses variables that can impact language development (e.g., poverty, attention deficit disorder, and others). The class includes a review of theories of language acquisition, basic principles of language sampling, and elements of grammar. There is an introduction to basic principles of assessment and intervention for children with language disorders as a foundation to the child language disorders class offered the subsequent semester.
Introduction: Dimensions of Human Communication (McLaughlin ch. 1)
Language Development Theories: Practical Implications (Roseberry-McKibbin & Hegde reading)
Infant Communication (McLaughlin ch. 5)
Toddler Language McLaughlin ch. 6
Preschool McLaughlin chapter 7 (pragmatic and semantic skills)
Preschool Morphosyntactic Skills (McLaughlin ch. 8)
Language Sampling (Techniques and Applications)
Language of the School Years (ch. 9 McLaughlin)
Full Lecture and PowerPoint FAS and Drugs
Chapter 5 Assessment (Roseberry-McKibbin text)
Intervention Chapter 6 (Roseberry-McKibbin text) (Roseberry-McKibbin text)
Chapter 12 Intervention (Roseberry-McKibbin text)