Does not fulfill General Education Science requirement. This course provides students with a basic understanding of the disorders of human communication. The nature of communication disorders associated with speech sound disorders, neurogenic speech disorders, voice, fluency, and alternative and augmentative communication are discussed. Issues related to assessment and intervention are addressed. An integrative treatment of concepts in the physics of sound, acoustic and physiological phonetics, and speech perception.
Students learn to use laboratory instrumentation for displaying and analyzing speech signals.
The course covers pure tone and speech audiometry along with audiogram interpretation, a brief review of hearing aid design and fitting procedures, as well as other listening devices.