Includes laboratory projects in commercials, interviewing, news and ad-lib announcing. The study of electronic media systems from an operations perspective. The student learns to administer and interpret the comprehensive auditory battery consisting of pure-tone air conduction and bone conduction thresholds, speech reception thresholds, speech discrimination tests and acoustic emittance test battery. Assessment techniques and intervention strategies for persons with disorders of the sound system of the language. Theories of phonological acquisition and etiological factors will be discussed during this course.
Course includes the identification of etiologic basses and characteristics of language disorders.
Assessment strategies leading to choice of intervention techniques will be discussed. Teaches methods of intervention of speech, language, and hearing services in various settings. Emphasis on developing skills in report writing, structuring intervention services, and their implementation. Twenty-five hours of observation. A signed declination of this series is acceptable in some facilities.