Emphasis on revision and peer editing. Satisfies Junior Year Writing requirement. The emergence of speech and language milestones in English-speaking children with emphasis on the development of pho nology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. How these aspects of language may be influenced by cognitive development. Includes personnel responsibilities, professional ethics, laws governing practice, techniques of differential diagnosis, clinical methods, psychometric test properties, and methods of referral.
Students receive a specific assignment as a treatment assistant within the departmental clinics.
Fundamentals of neuroanatomy and physi ology for communicative functions including speech, language, and hearing. The experimental psychology of cognition and the mental processes of language use. Emphasis on psycholinguistic study of knowledge and processes applied to language comprehension and formulation. Special topics include bilingualism and life-span changes. Copyright 2000 University of Massachusetts, Amherst .