Studies in Language Development

Provide students with knowledge and understanding of the development of language across the human lifespan. This course explores typical speech and language development across infancy, early, middle and late childhood, adolescence and adulthood. This forms the basis of the speech pathologists' professional role in identification of atypical development (disordered language skills). Bilingualism, working with Aboriginal and This course willrres Strait Islander clients and the multi-cultural classroom are discussed. Observing, describing, analysing and documenting speech, language and communication behaviours is a focus of this topic. Students will reflect on the process of observing language in naturally occurring contexts.