OVERVIEW

Speech Sound Disorders Course is organized by HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and will be held from Jul 02 - 13, 2018 at Utrecht, Netherlands.

The target audience for this medical event is Students in their second, third or fourth year of speech therapy education, or a similar education such as (neuro)linguistics, speech & language pathology, psychology or pedagogy. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 5.0 ECTS credits.

Conference Description :
The theoretical and practical content of this course will offer students a strong foundation for the understanding and treatment of speech sound disorders. This course focusses on speech sound disorders rather than on language disorders. Disordered speech may have different origins, either articulatory (speech) or cognitive (phonological). This course is designed to provide a deeper understanding of the different origins of speech sound disorders and how to differentiate between speech and phonological disorders. You will be introduced to the latest findings on speech and phonological disorders. Hands-on practice of speech transcription skills, analyzing disordered speech and developing intervention plans forms a major part of the course.

Course Aim:
The student is able to
• Describe models of speech sound disorders of typology, levels and characteristics of speech sound disorders.
• Describe the universal and language-specific phonological characteristics of their own language.
• Describe the normal and deviant phonological developmental patterns in their own language.
• Compare the normal and deviant phonological developmental patterns across the languages in the group.
• Transcribe phonetically the speech of a child with speech sound disorders.
• Perform a phonological analysis of a child’s spontaneous speech sample.
• Differentiate between types of speech sound disorders, such as articulatory, speech motor, planning and phonological disorders.
• Formulate treatment goals for different types of speech sounds disorders.
• Describe treatment plans for different types of speech sound disorders in own language.
• Support the choices for intervention in an evidence-based way, using relevant literature, speech sound and language data and relevant background information.
• Compare treatment options for his/her own language with other languages in the group.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.