• Assessment procedures for articulation and phonological disorders:
• Types of assessment
• sampling procedures,
• scoring procedures,
• criteria for selection of assessment instruments,
• construction of instruments.
• Assessment of associated skill areas such as oral peripheral mechanism, speech sound discrimination, stimulability.
• Formal assessment tools for articulation and phonological disorders.
• Speech Disorders in individuals with hearing loss.
• Craniofacial anomalies: Definition of terms, gross anatomy of velopharyngeal sphincter, classification of cleft types, linguistic development, speech developments, velopharyngeal dysfunction, team members and roles, assessment techniques and procedure.
• Guidelines for intervention.
• Intervention:
Stages of treatment and measuring improvement, Long term goals, Short-term goals and activities for achieving goals in cases with mis articulation.
• Issues in maintenance and generalization.
• Team approach and professional communication (Inter, intra professional and client oriented) Approaches to treatment: Motokinesthetic, Traditional (Van Riper), Integral stimulation, Phonological, Distinctive feature, Minimal Contrast therapy, Learning theories, Programmed, paired – stimuli. Computerized intervention packages.
• Specific Language Impairment: Definition, Assessment, Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis and Intervention strategies.
• Language disorders in ADHD: Definition, Assessment, Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis and Intervention strategies
. • Language disorders in ASD: Definition, Assessment, Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis and Intervention strategies.
• Social Communication Disorder: Definition, Assessment, Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis and Intervention strategies.
• Receptive Language Disorders and Expressive Language disorders: Causes, Assessment, Intervention strategies.
• Familiarization with CELF, Renfrew and other Formal language assessment tools.
Learning Outcomes:
After the completion of this course, the students will be able to
• Identify the etiologies and clinical features of speech and language problems.
• Command to use different formal tools regarding speech and language disorders.
• Make diagnosis on basis of formal assessment.
• Apply different therapeutic techniques for treatment of speech and language disorders.
