Our undergraduate curriculum provides a foundation in the field, with courses in American Sign Language, Deaf culture, audiology, speech anatomy and physiology, cognitive and communicative aspects of aging, phonetics, and research in hearing and speech science.
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This course focuses on the scientific study of speech production, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet. We also conduct exercises in transcriptions.
In this course, we review cognitive and communicative changes associated with normal aging as well as with diseases and conditions that are prevalent in the aging population. We discuss methodological issues in research on aging as well as principles for maximizing communication with the elderly population.
Develop your knowledge of how language is acquired by young children. In this course, we examine the major theories and research that are fundamental to answering the question of what infants and young children know about language at different ages.
Students will learn historical and contemporary perspectives of American Deaf culture using a socio-cultural model. Includes cultural identity, values, group norms, communication, language, and significant contributions made by deaf people to the world.
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