Child Language Impairments III: Intervention

2 credits · School of Medicine

This course is the third in a three-course sequence on child language impairments. The focus is evidence-based interventions that develop linguistic skills, primarily preschool through high school. The primary focus is on oral language skills, but literacy skills will be addressed as well (emergent literacy, decoding, spelling, reading comprehension, written expression). Intervention methods will include direct interventions with children as well as collaborative interventions delivered in conjunction with teachers and families. Students will learn to comprehend and interpret intervention research, to apply research to practice and explain the evidence base for specific clinical decisions, and to understand IDEA as it relates to school-based intervention. The lab component of the course focuses on the implementation of specific intervention strategies, procedures, and programs. Spring. [2]