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Child Development: Course Outline (SLPCD713)

Speech and language disorders refer to problems in communication and related areas such as oral motor function. These delays and disorders range from simple sound substitutions to the inability to understand or use language or use the oral-motor mechanism

Course Outline

Content: 

  • Development of child from birth, infancy, childhood to adulthood
  • Physical development
  • Emotional development
  • Social development
  • Intellectual development
  • Communication development
  • Hearing development
  • Cognition
  • Memory 
  • Development and concept of Delay
  • Personality development through life
  • Learning and theories of learning
  • Role of learning and its approaches to communication development
  • Behaviour its theory and therapy
  • Family and Role of family in child development
  • Rapport building, counselling and guidance
  • What is play and importance of play in child development.
  • Different types of families and their effect on child development

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