SPE526 Best Practice in Child Word-Finding: Academic Accommodations for Students with Expressive Language Difficulties

Represents Best Practice in the classroom for students with word-finding difficulties are presented. Specifically, this course provides a study of: (1) definition, characteristics, and word-finding profiles of children with word-finding difficulties; (2) models of lexical access to explain the source of word-finding difficulties; (3) the impact of word-finding difficulties on academic learning; (4) techniques for embedding retrieval strategies in vocabulary instruction; and (5) appropriate accommodations in academic instruction, assessment, and classroom discourse, for students challenged with word finding. Throughout learners engage in a self-study of their own word-finding skills to better understand those of students with word finding difficulties. Prerequisite(s): SPE500 2 semester hours