This course is designed to develop a thorough understanding of the process of language development from birth through the life span.
Language acquisition is one of the most important domains within the sciences of the mind.
Students will develop a thorough understanding of language acquisition conceptually, philosophically and scientifically. As there is no single process of language acquisition, students will be exposed to different acquisitions of word meaning, syntactic structure, morphological rules, etc. and explain the relationship between them. Students will understand the relationship between language acquisition and the learning process and why certain learning disabilities occur when language acquisition is deficient, how to recognize such deficiencies and what alternatives are available to remedy such deficiencies particularly as they relate to exceptional students.