Comm Lang Probs Hear Impaired credit:

4 Hours

Advanced course in the problems and procedures involved in the acquisition of language and communication by persons with severe hearing impairment, particularly those with profound prelingual deafness; emphasis on research and measurement in the development of speech, speechreading, residual hearing, reading, written language, and manual communication, including finger spelling and the language of signs; and stress on the applications of recent approaches in linguistics and psycholinguistics to language development. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.