Graduate Level Courses

Voice Disorders

This course examines various types of vocal fold pathologies and disorders of resonance, their causes and acoustic manifestations. Intervention strategies are addressed, as are techniques for the evaluation and analysis of normal and abnormal vocal fold functioning and resonance.

Acquired Language Disorders in Adults

This course examines the linguistic and cognitive deficits associated with acquired brain dysfunction in adults. The neurological basis of these deficits and their differential diagnosis, classification, and intervention are covered.

Cleft Palate and Velopharyngeal Disorders

This course studies the incidence, etiologies, symptoms, diagnostic procedures, and therapeutic techniques involved in providing services for cleft lip and palate in children and adults. Emphasis is on evaluation, decision-making, and medical, surgical, dental, and therapeutic interventions through team collaboration.

Swallowing and Feeding Disorders

This course covers assessment and intervention for swallowing disorders. The implementation of clinical examination procedures and interpretation of instrumental diagnostic procedures are addressed. Both instructional strategies for rehabilitation and compensatory feeding strategies are covered.

Communication Disorders Programs in the Schools

This course examines the organization and development of school-based speech, language, and hearing programs. Both the federal law and the New Jersey rules and regulations pertaining to special education and related services are addressed. The role of the speech-language pathologist on a child-study team is also addressed. The course examines a variety of models for service delivery, including inclusion and collaboration as well as the traditional pullout model.

Language Acquisition

This course examines theories, stages, developmental sequences, and processes related to first language acquisition during the preschool years. The social, communicative, and cognitive bases of early language are also discussed. Language development in school-age children is briefly surveyed. Issues related to dialects and bilingualism are also considered.

Motor Speech Disorders

This course examines the neurological bases of acquired and congenital motor speech disorders (dysarthria and apraxia) and the accompanying physiological and acoustic characteristics that result from damage to the central and peripheral nervous systems. Principles and procedures for the assessment and remediation of motor speech disorders are covered. Topics related to alternative and augmentative communication systems will be discussed.

Teaching Speech and Language to the Hearing-Impaired

This course examines presents diagnostic methods and intervention techniques in the areas of audition, speech and language for individuals with hearing impairment. It also explores how treatment may vary given differing perspectives on deafness and how decisions are made regarding communication mode and educational setting.

Language Disorders in Children Birth to Five

This course examines the communicative behaviors of at-risk and language disordered infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It describes assessment and intervention strategies appropriate for treating children with language disorders between birth and five-years-old.

Language Disorders in School-age Children and Adolescents

The purpose of this course is to provide information about the assessment and treatment of school-age children and adolescents with language disorders. A variety of assessment methods is explored. Includes information relating to team collaboration with teachers and other professionals. Strategies for providing intervention related to the curriculum are discussed. The connection between language and literacy development is addressed.

Clinical Management of the Multicultural Caseload

This course covers assessment and intervention of communication disorders in a multicultural caseload. Consideration is given to cultural differences, nonmainstream communication patterns, and limited English proficiency.

Speech Science

This course covers the acoustics of speech, including the application of these areas to speech-disordered populations. The content includes a discussion of current technology available for speech analysis and procedures used to perform basic acoustic analysis.

CODS 670

Counseling in Communication Disorders

The role of the speech-language pathologist in counseling individuals with communication disorders and their families is addressed. A primary focus is the development of interviewing and counseling skills across a varying range of types and severity of communication disorders appropriate to age, gender, education and cultural backgrounds of individuals serviced in clinical environments.

CODS

674

Seminars in Early Intervention

This courses examines the nature of language disorders in children from birth to three years of age. The social, motor, and cognitive aspects of child behavior that place the birth to three-year-old child in need of language intervention are discussed with respect to differential diagnosis, classification, and intervention.

Acquired Cognitive Disorders

This course examines the linguistic and cognitive deficits associated with acquired dementia, traumatic brain injury and right hemisphere damage in adults and children. The neurological bases of these deficits and their differential diagnosis, classification, and rehabilitation will be covered.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

This course provides an overview of Autism Spectrum Disorder. It includes information relating to the speech and language characteristics and related characteristics (sensory, cognitive,behavioral) of the disorder. The course describes the diagnostic issues, philosophical issues, and intervention techniques. The spectrum of social disorders including Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD) and Asperger's Syndrome will be discussed.

Research Methods in Communication Disorders

This course will develop skills for planning a research project, evaluating existing research, and writing a research report. A variety of single subject and group designs will be presented. Issues related to validity, reliability, statistical analysis, interpretation, and ethics will be examined.

Research Methods in Communication Disorders

This course will develop skills for planning a research project, evaluating existing research, and writing a research report. A variety of single subject and group designs are presented. Issues related to validity, reliability, statistical analysis, interpretation, and ethics will be examined.

Thesis Seminar I

This seminar will guide student in developing the thesis project under the direction of a faculty member. Students will meet in small group seminars and will receive individual instruction in planning a research project and writing the literature review and methods and materials sections of their theses.

Statistical Principles for Research in Communication Disorders

This course examines statistical concepts relevant to clinical research in communication sciences and disorders. Students collect data and learn how to perform statistical analyses as well as to read printouts generated by a statistical software package.

Thesis Seminar II

This seminar guides the student in completing the thesis project under the direction of a faculty member. Students will meet in small group seminars and will receive individual instruction in collecting and analyzing data and writing the results and the discussion sections of their theses.

Independent Study

Individual research projects under the direction of a faculty member. Prerequisite: Permission of chairperson.