SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
- Overview of case from initial referral to discharge
- Articulation and phonology - concepts, definitions, terminology
- Typical development of speech (e.g., babbling, phonemic repertoire, normative data, normal 'errors', vowels, syllable structure, consonant clusters, suprasegmentals/prosody)
- Factors influencing speech development and impairment - risk and protective factors
- Association between speech impairment and life activities - potential outcomes (e.g., social, emotional, occupational)
- Assessment - purpose, availability of formal and informal measures, rationale for selection of tools, stimulability/variability/intelligibility, recording and transcription, multilingual speech assessment
- Anlaysis - traditional articulation analysis, independent and relational analyses, psycholinguistic/nonlinear/instrumental analyses
- Selecting intervention targets - factors influencing selection
- Intervention approaches - Including traditional articulation/coarticulation, minimal pairs, maximal pairs, cycles, metaphon, nonlinear, psycholingustic, cued articulation
- Treatment efficacy and clinical decision making
- Special populations - phonological awareness, childhood apraxia of speech, cleft lip/palate
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