Aug 31, 2025  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog

HHS 523 - Language and Literacy Disorders in School-Age Children and Adolescents


Provides an overview about school-age and adolescent language and literacy disorders. Covers models of language and reading development. Discusses evidence-based practice assessment and intervention of oral and written language disorders in school-age children and adolescents, multicultural service delivery, treatment advocacy and outreach, designing intervention plans accounting for Common State Core Standards and Response to Intervention (RTI), and providing therapy services to children in schools. Students will apply their theoretical knowledge to clinical practice by eliciting narrative samples from a school-age child.

3 credits