Survey of Speech and Language Disorders Sample Syllabi

Required Texts

Shames, G.H., Wiig, E.H., & Secord, W.A. (1994). Human Communication Disorders: An introduction (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Van Riper, C., & Emerick, L. (1984). Speech correction: An introduction to speech pathology and audiology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Class Outline

Class 1: Course Organization

• Introduction to the profession
• Incidence etiology and basic manifestations of speech and language disorders and hearing relationship
• Read - Shames, Wiig, & Secord, Chapter 1 and pp 1-27

Class 2: Communication versus Language

• The origin of speech and language in humans
• Can animals use English?
• Read - Shames, Wiig, & Secord, Chapter 2, pp 36-81

Class 3: Language

• Syntactic and morphologic development of language
• Pragmatics
• Read - Van Riper & Emerick, Chapter 3, pp 75-107

Class 4: Library Tour and Reference Lecture

Class 5: Semantic and Phonological Development of Language

Class 6: Language Development (continued)

• Film and discussion: "Out of the Mouth of Babes" and "Normal Speech Articulation"

Class 7: Speech

• Normal articulation, voice and resonance
• Articulation versus phonology discussion
• Videotapes and discussion about language development
• Read - Shames, Wiig, & Secord, pp 293-303, material on normal articulation

Class 8: Normal Speaking Voice Dynamics

• Pitch, quality, volume, respiration rate

Class 9: Normal Voice and Resonance (continued)

• Film and discussion "A Look at Sound" and "Your Voice"
• Read - Shames, Wiig, & Secord, Chapter 3 material on normal voice production

Class 10: Early Language Disorders

• Disorders of language in the pediatric population
• How is speech and language abnormal or disordered?
• Reward and punishment
• Read - Van Riper & Emerick, pp 110-117, 133-139; Chapters 6 pp 165-205

Class 11: Midterm Examination

• Lecture and text material through normal speech and language

Class 12: Functional Articulation Disorders and Phonological Disorders

• Read - Van Riper & Emerick, Chapter 7 pp 207-252

Class 13: Language Disorders (continued)

• Features prevalence versus incidence
• Definitions in intellectual disabilities, language-learning disorders, and autism
• Film and discussion: "Behavioral Treatment in Autistic Children"

Class 14: Film and Discussion

• "Teaching Language to Psychotic Children"
• Discussion of autism versus mutism versus nonspeech communication

Class 15: American English Dialects, Language and Communication Differences in a Multicultural Society

• The influence of cultural diversity on languages
• Read - Shames, Wiig, & Secord, Chapter 4 pp 135-173
• Film and discussion from "The Story of English: The Muvver Tongue"

Class 16: Bilingualism and Accent

• Film and discussion: "American Tongues"

Class 17: Disorders of Voice

• Read - Shames, Wiig, & Secord, Chapter 8, pp 282-335
• Videotape

Class 18: Voice Disorders (continued)

Class 19: Final Examination Review