This course focuses on the neuroscience, assessment, and treatment of acquired neurogenic language, cognitive, and social disorders across the life span (e.g. aphasia, dementia, traumatic head injury, right hemisphere damage, seizure disorder, cerebral infection, exposure to harmful environmental hazards).

This course explores language disorders of school-age children and adolescents and the evidence-based interplay of language and literacy and its implications for intervention in this age group. Reading and writing development, assessment, intervention, and issues related to delivery of literacy services in schools will be presented.

This course is concerned with providing students with a foundation in clinical research methods used in speech, language, and hearing sciences sufficient for them to propose a capstone research project. The major goal of this course is to prepare students to be critical consumers of research literature and become familiar with evidence-based practice in communication sciences and disorders.

This course covers the nature, assessment, and treatment of speech sound disorders and motor speech disorders across the lifespan. This course covers cross-linguistic and cross-cultural issues and includes acquired, organic, and functional origins.

This course covers the behavioral characteristics and common intervention approaches for language delay and disorders, developmental apraxia of speech, phonological disorders, craniofacial anomalies, cognitive-communication disorders, and disorders of social communication.

This course covers the principles and practice involved in performing in-depth diagnostic evaluations with individuals exhibiting various communication disorders and planning appropriate intervention programs. Students will gain experience in taking case histories, formulating an assessment battery, evaluating patients, interpreting data, writing diagnostic reports, developing treatment plans, and writing SOAP notes.

This course examines phonetic and phonological aspects of spoken language using experimental and clinical methods. Focuses primarily on acoustic phonetics and speech perception. Significant time is devoted to hands-on data analysis techniques.

The course focuses on scholarship for nursing practice as the student completes the final stages of the DNP Project, with the emphasis on synthesizing and applying knowledge gained in the Project work, with a goal of translation and dissemination of this knowledge via a formal, scholarly paper and poster presentation. May be repeated for credit.

A practicum experience in the final semester of the program, grounded in a clinical or leadership setting, designed to provide the student an opportunity to refine leadership skills through an intensive experience.

Students complete an individually designed practicum based on fulfilling the AACN Essentials Competencies through elective clinical experience regarding health policy, quality and safety outcomes, informatics, population health, and/or other foci. Planned experience is based on learning needs/goals, previous coursework, and experience.