SLP 288 Communication Disorders in Low Incidence Populations

Lecture Hours: 3
Credits: 3

Focuses on the nature of communication, swallowing and feeding disorders in groups of children, adolescents and adults with various types of disabilities that occur with a low frequency in the general population. Describes the specific communication, swallowing, and feeding disorders manifested in these various groups, along with the approaches to and types of intervention. Emphasizes the role of the assistant in the administration of behavioral treatment and methods and the tracking of progress with various data methods as a major key to success for these clients in both group and individual treatment models. Includes an overview of various genetic disorders.

Prerequisite: SLP 180 with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Describe the general nature and types of low incidence disabilities including the communication, swallowing, feeding, and behavioral aspects.
Explain the causal genetic and chromosomal abnormalities in low incidence disabilities.
Employ various approaches to obtaining response data documenting communication, feeding, and general behavioral responses to intervention.
Plan and organize an in-depth review of one low incidence disability including the nature of the associated communication, behavioral, and feeding disorders and best practice approaches to intervention.
Provide teaching instructions that are clear, concise, and appropriate to the client’s developmental age, level of understanding, communication, and communication style.
Provide accurate feedback to the client including the use of effective reinforcement of target behaviors, and appropriate use of modeling and cuing.
Implement reinforcement of target behaviors that is matched to the client’s developmental age, cultural background, and communication disorder.

Content Outline

Documentation Purposes and Methods
Goals and Objectives
Literature
Curriculum
Articulation
Licensing through a Board of Examiners
Lesson Plan/Treatment Plans
Professional Organizations
HIPAA, Universal Precautions, FERPA, Confidentiality
Review of a Variety of Low Incidence Populations and Diagnoses