These exams will be taken in the spring of the student's second year of graduate work. The student must have satisfactorily completed at least 40 semester hours of school psychology course work prior to taking these exams. This course is designed to further the student's understanding of a child's development of speech and language. Disorders in the development of speech or language is considered with an emphasis on developing intervention programs, acquainting students with therapy programs, and giving them an understanding of the rationale for the development of such programs. The emphasis will be placed on school-age children, although some discussion will be given regarding preschool and adult populations.
Students learn to diagnose and remediate children's reading problems.
This course includes a practicum experience in which students must give a formal and informal reading test to a child and based on the results, formulate recommendations for instruction. The tools necessary for understanding contemporary educational research, including probability, measures of central tendency, and sampling theory . The interaction of the biological and environmental factors influencing growth and development are stressed. A variety of research methodologies, as pertains to school psychology, will be examined, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of their use. Nature and type of measurement in school psychology are also examined.