Course Title:
Language Development
Course Description:
Covers the development of the language system from birth to adolescence in this introductory course. Students compare different theories of language acquisition and understand their implications for intervention approaches; become familiar with broad developmental stages in infancy and childhood in the domains of motor skills, cognition, social skills, and speech and language, and the connections among these domains; understand the social dynamics between parents and children from which early gestures, and prespeech vocalizations, emerge; are able to utilize some informal measures of language development covering form, content, and use; understand broad differences in development in multicultural populations including Asian, Hispanic, and African-American children.
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Cross-Listed Course 1:
SLA U102
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Repeatable:
N
