COURSE SCHEDULE, Spring 2025

Note: Including assignments (subject to change)

Week	Date	Topic	Materials	Other tasks
1	1/27	Overview + history of professions and field	Penn State video: Overview of Communication Sciences and DisordersWeismer & Brown (2019): Ch. 1, p. 7-8. Holt video: Native Speaker Ideologies and Speech Language Pathology | Dr. Yolanda Holt	-Review syllabus and course requirements
2	2/03	Anatomy & Physiology	Weismer & Brown (2019): Ch 10Weismer & Brown (2019): Ch 12	Quiz on week 1 topic
3	2/10	Speech-sound disorders	McLeod & Goldstein (2012) Ch 2
4	TUE 2/18	Child language impairments	The linguistic genius of babies – Patricia Kuhl statistical learning in infants? (saffran et al., 1996) – ok science ORAcquisition of Language 2: Saffran et al 1996	Quiz on week 2-3 topic
5	2/24	Child language impairments	Gregory, K. D., & Oetting, J. B. (2018)Bedore et al. (2018)Potapova et al. (2018)Washington et al. (2018)Weiler et al. (2018)
6	3/03	Fluency disorders	Gahl (2020)	Quiz on week 4-5 topic
7	3/10	Literacy disorders	Washington & Seidenberg (2021)Spracher (2000)	Quiz on week 6 topic
8	3/17	Adult language impairments	Weismer & Brown (2019): Ch. 9	Quiz on week 7 topic
9	3/24	Voice & resonance	Sell, D., Pereira, V., Wren, Y. and Russell, J. (2021)	Quiz on week 8 topic
10	3/31	Eid – No class
11	4/07	Motor Speech disorders	Weismer & Brown (2019): ch 14	Quiz on week 9 topic
12	4/14	Spring break – No class
13	4/21	Swallowing	Weismer & Brown (2019):Ch. 20
14	4/28	Audiology & hearing loss	(NIH). Journey of Sound to the Brain, 2018. Journey of Sound to the Brain“How Do We Hear? | NIDCD,” March 16, 2022.	Quiz on week 11+ 13 topic
15	5/5	Augmentative & Alternative Communication	Smith (2003): Ch. 4	Quiz on week 14 topic
16	5/12	TBD		Quiz on week 15 topic
Finals	In-person final exam

COURSE MATERIALS

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Required Course Materials By Topic

Overview and history of professions and field of communication sciences and disorders

• Overview and history of professions and field of communication sciences and disorders
  1. Ch. 1, p. 7-8: Evidence-based Practice: Weismer, Gary, and David K. Brown. Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders : The Scientific Basis of Clinical Practice, Plural Publishing, Incorporated, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/reader.action?docID=6006573&ppg=30 

Videos

2. Penn State Communication Sciences and Disorders. Overview of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5EJ0FMo5Nk.
3. ROLE Collective. Native Speaker Ideologies and Speech Language Pathology | Dr. Yolanda  Holt, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvhmI5JyN0E.

Anatomy & Physiology of the speech system

• Anatomy & Physiology of the speech system
  1. Ch. 10: Speech Science I;  and Ch. 12: Phonetics. In: Weismer, Gary, and David K. Brown. Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders : The Scientific Basis of Clinical Practice, Plural Publishing, Incorporated, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central. 

Speech-sound disorders

• Speech-sound disorders
  1. Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena. “Chapter 2: Sociolinguistic and Cultural Considerations When Working WithMultilingual Children.” In Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children, edited by Sharynne McLeod and Brian Goldstein, 13–23. Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM: Multilingual Matters, 2012. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/reader.action?docID=922853&ppg=43 

Child language impairments

Videos:

1. Lisa Pearl. Acquisition of Language 2: Saffran et al 1996, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc4IgK89EWU.
2. ok science. Statistical Learning in Infants? (Saffran et al., 1996) – Ok Science, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW5fVH6iV2s.
3. TED-Ed. The Linguistic Genius of Babies – Patricia Kuhl, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-ymanHajN8.

Readings

4. Gregory, Kyomi D., and Janna B. Oetting. “Classification Accuracy of Teacher Ratings When Screening Nonmainstream English-Speaking Kindergartners for Language Impairment in the Rural South.” Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 49, no. 2 (April 2018): 218–231. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_LSHSS-17-0045. PDF: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6105134/pdf/LSHSS-49-218.pdf 

5. Bedore, L. M., Peña, E. D., Anaya, J. B., Nieto, R., Lugo-Neris, M. J., & Baron, A. (2018). Understanding disorder within variation: Production of English grammatical forms by English language learners. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49, 277-291. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6105132/pdf/LSHSS-49-277.pdf 

6. Potapova, I., Kelly, S., Combiths, P., & Pruitt-Lord, S. L. (2018). Evaluating English morpheme accuracy, diversity, and productivity measures in language samples of developing bilinguals. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49, 260-276. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6105131/pdf/LSHSS-49-260.pdf 

7. Washington, J. A., Branum-Martin, L., Sun, C., & Lee-James, R. (2018). The impact of dialect density on the growth of language and reading in African American children. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49, 232-247. https://brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/impact-dialect-density-on-growth-language-reading/docview/2053295328/se-2?accountid=7286 

8. Weiler, B., Schuele, C. M., Feldman, J. I., & krimin, H. (2018). A multiyear population-based study of kindergarten language screening failure rates using the Rice/Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49, 248-259. https://brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/multiyear-population-based-study-kindergarten/docview/2053294802/se-2?accountid=7286 

Fluency disorders

• Fluency disorders
  1. Gahl, Susanne. “Bilingualism as a Purported Risk Factor for Stuttering: A Close Look at a Seminal Study (Travis et al., 1937).” Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 63, no. 11 (November 13, 2020): 3680–84. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00364.

Literacy disorders

• Literacy disorders
  1. Washington, Julie A., and Mark Seidenberg. “Teaching Reading to African American Children: When Home and School Language Differ.” American Educator Summer 2021 (blog), July 11, 2023. https://www.aft.org/ae/summer2021/washington_seidenberg.
  2. Spracher, Mary M. “Learning About Literacy: SLPs Play Key Role in Reading, Writing.” The ASHA Leader Archive 5, no. 8 (April 2000): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1044/leader.SCM.05082000.1.

Adult language/communication impairments

1. Weismer & Brown., Ch. 9: Language Disorders in Adults. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/reader.action?docID=6006573&ppg=134

Voice and Resonance

• Voice and resonance
  1. Weismer & Brown., Ch. 18, Voice Disorders. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/reader.action?docID=6006573&ppg=266 
  2. Code, Chris. “Aphasia.” In The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders, 286–309. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119606987.ch14.
  3. Sell, Debbie, Valerie Pereira, Yvonne Wren, and Jane Russell. “Speech Disorders Related to Cleft Palate and Velopharyngeal Dysfunction.” In The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders, 468–94. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119606987.ch21.

Motor-speech disorders

• Motor-speech disorders
  1. Weismer & Brown., Ch. 14, Motor speech disorders in adults, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/reader.action?docID=6006573&ppg=214 

Swallowing

• Swallowing
  1. On adult Dysphagia, from ASHA: https://www.asha.org/Practice-Portal/Clinical-Topics/Adult-Dysphagia/ 
  2. Weismer & Brown (2019): Ch. 20: Swallowing: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/reader.action?docID=6006573&ppg=300 

Audiology, hearing loss, and cultural Deafness

• Audiology, hearing loss, and cultural Deafness
  1. “How Do We Hear? | NIDCD,” March 16, 2022. https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/how-do-we-hear.
  2. “Journey of Sound to the Brain | NIDCD,” May 9, 2022. https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/news/multimedia/journey-of-sound-video.
  3. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Journey of Sound to the Brain, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQEaiZ2j9oc.

Augmentative and alternative communication

• Augmentative and alternative communication
  1. Smith, Martine. “Ch. 4: Literacy and Alternative and Augmentative Communication.” In Literacy and Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Boston, UNITED STATES: BRILL, 2003. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/reader.action?docID=226845&ppg=67.