SLP1012 — Speech and Language Development: Birth-to-Five
SLP 1012 - Speech and Language Development: Birth-to-Five SLP 1012 - Speech and Language Development: Birth-to-Five This course focuses on typical development of speech and language in children from birth through five years of age. Basic and applied research is explored with an emphasis on the major approaches utilized to study language development. Language development theories are discussed with explanations of how these frameworks influence everyday practice. Students practice calculating the number of morphemes per utterance to estimate the syntactic complexity of children’s’ utterances, identify sentence types and communicative functions expressed by children, and compare arguments of ‘nature vs. nurture.’ Prerequisite or Corequisite: SLP 1011 Previous: SLP* 112