Language and Speech Disorders

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop and clearly express sophisticated arguments in writing.
• Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to: successfully engage with and evaluate research papers
• use a variety of resources to carry out detailed independent research
• critically evaluate your own skills
• participate in critical discussions of controversial issues.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• understand and illustrate how secondary data supports or refutes theoretical readings in the field
• show an ability to describe and debate the foundations of language at both cognitive and neurobiological levels
• Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to: to observe and describe the features of key speech, language and communication difficulties
• analyse secondary data and case studies

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how language and communication disorders can help us gain insight into how language works in the human brain
• Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: language and Communication Disorders and you will be able to define key disorders impacting speech, language and communication in both children and adults
• current research into acquired language disorders associated with aphasia and dementia, and also research associated with developmental language disorders
• how the study of speech, language and communication difficulties can inform our knowledge about normal development and language processing

The syllabus will cover both developmental and acquired language and communication disorders. Topics may include:

Developmental language and speech impairments :among others, developmental language disorder and delay, phonological delay and disorder

Developmental special needs :including, autistic spectrum disorder, ADHD, Downs Syndrome

Acquired language impairments: including aphasia, dementias

Teaching and learning methods

Tutor led lectures and seminars

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Amalia Bar-On and Dorit Ravid, (eds) (2018). The Handbook of Communication Disorders. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Damico, Muller and Ball (eds) (2021). The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders. Wiley Blackwell.

Rueschemeyer and Gaskell (eds) (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Wiley Blackwell.

Hoff and Schatz (eds) (2009). The Handbook of Language Development. Wiley Blackwell.

Louise Cummings (ed) (2013). The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders. Cambridge University Press.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External