Websites

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
http://www.asha.org/
• The Council for Exceptional Children Division for Children With Communicative Disabilities and Deafness
http://www.dcdd.us/

-COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

• How are speech and language impairments related to one another and to typical language development?

• What types of communication disorders might statements such as “The dogs runned home” and “That foop is dood” signal?

• How are causes of speech and language impairments classified?

• What are the major components of a comprehensive evaluation to detect the presence and extent of a communication disorder?

• What are the basic goals and common elements of effective interventions for speech-sound errors? for language disorders?

• What is augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and who can it help?

• How does the role of the speech-language pathologist change as a function of the educational setting in which a child with communication disorders is served?