Course Description & Objectives:
Objectives:
- At the end of the course, students should be able to analyse and describe different kinds of language data
- Students should be able to construct and interpret clinical assessments of speech and language samples for a range of Ugandan languages using analytical and problem solving skills
- Students should have the knowledge and skills required when working with multi-lingual clients
- Students should have basic understanding of theories of conversational analysis and its practical application within speech and language therapy
Content:
- Elementary linguistic analysis: descriptive and analytical approaches
- Elementary IPA phonetic transcription and analysis
- Analysis of a short piece of normal speech data using broad phonetic transcription
- Levels of language and their interaction morphology; syntax; (sentence structure – noun and verb phrases, clause analysis) semantics and pragmatics
- Conversational analysis, turn-taking and repair
Implications and management of multi-lingual clients
