Module overview
This module focuses on language and communication disorders, both developmental and acquired. It builds on your linguistic and psycholinguistic knowledge developed in other modules you have followed in your programme. It will also examine the disorders from the perspective of typical language processing.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: language and Communication Disorders and you will be able to define key disorders impacting speech, language and communication in both children and adults
- how the study of speech, language and communication difficulties can inform our knowledge about normal development and language processing
- how language and communication disorders can help us gain insight into how language works in the human brain
- current research into acquired language disorders associated with aphasia and dementia, and also research associated with developmental language disorders
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- understand and illustrate how secondary data supports or refutes theoretical readings in the field
- Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to: to observe and describe the features of key speech, language and communication difficulties
- analyse secondary data and case studies
- show an ability to describe and debate the foundations of language at both cognitive and neurobiological levels
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically evaluate your own skills
- use a variety of resources to carry out detailed independent research
- Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to: successfully engage with and evaluate research papers
- participate in critical discussions of controversial issues.
- develop and clearly express sophisticated arguments in writing.
Syllabus
The syllabus will cover both developmental and acquired language and communication disorders. Topics may include:
Developmental language and speech impairments :among others, developmental language disorder and delay, phonological delay and disorder
Developmental special needs :including, autistic spectrum disorder, ADHD, Downs Syndrome
Acquired language impairments: including aphasia, dementias
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Tutor led lectures and seminars
Type | Hours |
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Tutorial | 2 |
Independent Study | 124 |
Seminar | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Amalia Bar-On and Dorit Ravid, (eds) (2018). The Handbook of Communication Disorders. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
Rueschemeyer and Gaskell (eds) (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Wiley Blackwell.
Hoff and Schatz (eds) (2009). The Handbook of Language Development. Wiley Blackwell.
Louise Cummings (ed) (2013). The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders. Cambridge University Press.
Damico, Muller and Ball (eds) (2021). The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders. Wiley Blackwell.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assignment | 50% |
Data Analysis | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assessment | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assessment | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External