Nature and types of amplifying systems employed with the hearing-impaired. Electroacoustic characteristics including gain, power, acoustic response, distortion, etc. Principles and methods of selection and usage of hearing aids. Prerequisite: COMM-DIS 640 or equivalent.

Assessment and intervention strategies for language disordered children; emphasis on language behavior relative to neurological, sensory, cognitive-intellectual, and psycho-emotional deficits. Prerequisite: COMM-DIS 631.

Diagnosis and rehabilitation of cognitive-communicative disorders caused by traumatic brain injury, right hemisphere stroke, and progressive neuropathologies. Prerequisite: COMM-DIS 613.

Theories and research of voice science, voice physiology and production, clinical symptomatology, principles and techniques of therapy and differential diagnosis. Prerequisites: COMM-DIS 210 and 211 or equivalents.

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The emergence of speech and language milestones in English-speaking children with emphasis on the development of phonology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics, and how these aspects of language may be influenced by cognitive development. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BS-ComDis majors. Prerequisite: LINGUIST 201 or equivalent.

Introduction to hearing disorders, assessment and rehabilitation. Prerequisites: COMM-DIS 211, 311; PHYSICS 114.