SED 523: Speech, Language and Communication Development in Austim

Class Program
Credits 3
Students will study speech, language and communication development such as biological bases of language development; brain development and language development; foundations of language development in domain-general skills and communicative expression; social and communicative foundations of language development; the communicative function of speech; social cognitive skills; structural abnormalities relevant to language development in autism; functional abnormalities in language processing in autism; implications of the neurobiological differences for identification and intervention.