Speech-Language Pathology, B.S.
SLP 100
STUDENT SPEECH CLINIC
1, 0/0
Complete diagnostic evaluation and intervention services for students with speech, language, hearing, fluency, or voice disorders. Accent-reduction services also available. Open to all students. Hours by arrangement.
SLP 101
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE I
3, 3/0
Fundamentals of American Sign Language (ASL), including basic grammatical features, language functions, and finger spelling. Designed to give students adequate receptive and expressive skills for communicating with deaf individuals using ASL. Supplemental lectures focus on issues related to deafness, deaf culture, and signed languages.
SLP 102
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: SLP 101. Continuation of SLP 101, designed to give students additional knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) and the deaf community, and to increase competence in ASL conversational skills.
SLP 206
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
3, 3/0; SSIF
Analysis of language and its development; children’s acquisition of language, speech sounds, words, sentence structure, and meaning; factors that influence language development. Not open to speech-language pathology majors except by advisement.
SLP 210
INTRODUCTION TO SIGN LANGUAGE
3, 3/0
Introduction to basic sign language skills suitable for use in elementary classes for students with hearing disabilities. Focus on the development of basic expressive and receptive skills in signed English, including finger spelling (dactylology); basic information about the sign language continuum, deafness, and deaf culture. Active participation in daily signing in front of large and small groups or providing appropriate constructive feedback. Practice of receptive and expressive signing skills outside of class encouraged.
SLP 220
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
3, 3/0
Classification and causes of speech, language, and hearing disorders in children and adults; methods of treatment for communication disorders and suggestions for prevention; basic information on normal and abnormal speech, language, and hearing development; videotaped observation of individuals presenting various communication disorders. Not open to speech-language pathology majors except by advisement.
SLP 300
INTRODUCTION TO SPEECH PATHOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Speech-language pathology major. Etiology, characteristics, diagnoses, and intervention implications of disorders of motor speech, adult language, craniofacial anomalies, fluency, phonology, voice, and cognitive-communicative.
SLP 302
CLINICAL PHONETICS
3, 3/0
Production, acoustic analysis, and representation of English (American) speech sounds; application of phonetics to deviations in speech.
SLP 303
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: SLP 302. Corequisite: SLP 329. Children’s acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; structure, function of language of normal children at different levels of development; comparison and contrast of theories of language acquisition.
SLP 304
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF SPEECH AND HEARING MECHANISMS
3, 3/0
Anatomy and physiology of normal speech and hearing mechanisms; possible deviations; embryonic development; neurology associated with production and reception of oral language.
SLP 305
COMMUNICATION DISORDERS I
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: SLP 302, SLP 304. Designed to provide students with knowledge of the scope and responsibilities of the field of speech-language pathology, and the basic knowledge concerning etiology, assessment, and intervention techniques related to articulation, phonology, phonemic awareness in reading and writing, craniofacial anomalies, and fluency disorders, including bilingual and dialectal considerations.
SLP 314
AUDIOLOGY
3, 0/0
Hearing and hearing disorders for speech-language pathologists. Anatomy and physiology of the ear and pathologies of the auditory mechanism, decibel notation, and pure-tone audiometry and tympanometry.
SLP 328
AUDIOLOGY LAB
1, 0/2
Operation and listening check of the puretone audiometer, pure-tone air-conduction threshold testing, screening, otoscopy, tympanometry, and reporting test results.
SLP 329
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LAB
1, 0/2
Observation of language used by typical children. Practice with procedures to collect and analyze typical language.
SLP 405
COMMUNICATION DISORDERS II
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: SLP 302, SLP 303, SLP 304, SLP 305. Provides basic etiology, assessment, and intervention techniques related to voice disorders, developmental and acquired motor speech disorders, aphasia, traumatic brain injury, dysphagia, and augmentative communication.
SLP 411
LANGUAGE DIAGNOSIS AND REMEDIATION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: SLP 303. Introduction to childhood language disorders, including the demographics and characteristics features of language disorders.
SLP 412
SPEECH ACOUSTICS AND PERCEPTION
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: SLP 302, SLP 304. Corequisite: SLP 428. A study of the scientific principles underlying the physiology, acoustics, and perception of normal speech production as a basis for subsequent understanding of disordered speech. Topics include basic concepts of sound, motor and acoustic theories of speech production, speech perception, instrumentation used to measure speech processes, and application to speech pathology.
SLP 424
ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF SCHOOL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
3, 3/0
Organization of school speech-language programs, including laws and regulations, case selection, caseload, scheduling, records, and facilities.
SLP 424
ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF SCHOOL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
3, 3/0
Organization of school speech-language programs, including laws and regulations, case selection, caseload, scheduling, records, and facilities.
SLP 428
ACOUSTICS LAB
1, 0/2
Corequisite: SLP 412. Direct and guided use of special instrumentation essential to the collection, measurement, and/or analysis of the acoustic components of speech sounds. Focus areas are respiration, phonation, articulation, and resonance.
SLP 429
CLINICAL ACTIVITY
1, 0/3
Observation, evaluation, and treatment sessions in speech-language pathology.