Students are expected to participate in class discussions and read pertinent literature as needed. In addition, opportunities for clinical observation are provided to students who enroll in the course. All department faculty participate in the course, at different times. Students who qualify for the course are contacted by the departmental chair and the department honors adviser. After brief overview of major theoretical approaches to counseling, this course focuses on the development of basic listening skills and practical application of concepts to situations pertinent to the fields of speech pathology and audiology.
Class consists of lecture, discussion, small group activities, and group presentations.
Readings are assigned from required texts and some reserve articles. This course covers basic concepts of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, including description and classification of speech sounds, suprasegmental characteristics, dialect variations, and language differences. One of the primary goals is the development of phonetic transcription skills through intensive practice, with an emphasis on English phonetics and on applications to developing and disordered speech. Students are required to attend two lectures and two one-hour lab sessions each week. The required text is Clinical Phonetics by Shriberg and Kent.