University of Louisiana at Lafayette
 CODI 523:

Advanced Description of Disordered Speech
 Fall Semester, 2009

Instructor:  Dr Martin J. Ball
Office:  209 Burke-Hawthorne                                Room: BH 216
Phone:  482-1077                                                   Days: T, R
Office Hours: Posted on office door                      Time: 11.00-12.15
E-mail:  mjball@louisiana.edu

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

 

This course will examine approaches to understanding the nature, assessment and remediation of articulatory and phonological disorders, mainly in children, but also including information from disorders across the life span. 

 

 

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1.   To discuss the difference between articulatory phonetic and phonological disorders.

2.   To present a variety of data collection and assessment techniques suitable for disorders of different kinds.

3.   To present a variety of intervention techniques suitable for disorders of different kinds.

4.   To present a description of speech disorders of differing origins from across the life span.

5. To practice the transcription of normal and disordered speech into the symbols of the IPA.

 

 

LEARNER OUTCOMES

Upon completion of this course students should be able to:

1. review information on the nature, causes and correlates of articulatory and phonological disorders.

2. examine a variety of approaches to assessment and gain guided practice in their use.

3. review specific procedures for summarizing articulatory and phonological error patterns in written and oral form.

4. review a variety of approaches to the treatment of articulatory and phonological disorders and plan a program of clinical management.

5. transcribe both normal and disordered speech into the symbols of the IPA.

 

CLASS STRUCTURE

Classes will be of two types: lectures, where the basic information of the course is imparted, and practical sessions, where the oral production and transcription of a range of both English and non-English sounds will be undertaken. Some classes will consist of different amounts of time assigned to both these activities.

 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1. Students must complete assigned readings from the reading list by the suggested date on the topic outline. Students may be quizzed at anytime after deadline to assure that they are keeping up with reading assignments.

2. Perform satisfactorily on the Final examination.

 

3. Perform satisfactorily on the homework assignments.

 

 

ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING

 

  1. Final Exam: 40%
  2. Homework assignments (2): 60% (30% each)

 

GRADING

Students will accumulate points for all assignments, projects, quizzes and exams.  The final grade will be based on the total number of points accumulated and expressed as a percentage (%) of the total points possible during the semester. Points will be deducted for all assignments that are turned in late unless the student presents a written excuse that is acceptable to the instructor (10% per day late). Students must make a grade of C or better in CODI 323. Extra points may be awarded for performance in class.

Grading Scale:
Letter grades will be assigned using the following scale:

     90 - 100  - A
     80 - 89   - B
     70 - 79   - C
     60 - 69   - D
     Below 60  - F
 

Class Attendance:

 1. Regular class attendance is required.

 2. In case of absences from class, it is the student's responsibility to obtain any materials and information missed.

 3. Students are responsible for making up all assignments within three days of returning to class from an excused absence.

CELL-PHONE POLICY

1. Cell Phones are to be OFF during class; not on silent vibrate mode. No texting in class!

2. Students are NOT allowed to leave class to make or receive cell phones calls or text messages.

3. If you expect an urgent message (e. g. to do with family illness etc), tell the instructor at the beginning of class.

4. After one warning, students who breach this policy will be asked to leave the classroom for that meeting.

 

 

ACADEMIC HONESTY

Please note the following University Regulations:

Rules and Regulations

 V. Academic Honesty

 

A.  Introduction

     An essential rule in every class of the University is that all work for which a student will

     receive a grade or credit be entirely his or her own or be properly documented to

     indicate sources. When a student does not follow this rule, s/he is dishonest and s/he

     defeats the purpose of the course and undermines the goals of the University.

     Cheating in any form therefore can not be tolerated; and the responsibility rests with

     the student to know the acceptable methods and techniques for proper documentation

     of sources and to avoid cheating and/or plagiarism in all work submitted for credit,

     whether prepared in or out of class.

 

B.  Definitions of Cheating and Plagiarism

     1.    Cheating,  in  the  context  of  academic  matters,  is  the term  broadly  used  to

          describe all acts of dishonesty committed in the taking of tests or examinations

          and in the preparation of assignments. Cheating includes but is not limited to

          such practices as gaining help from another person or using crib notes when

          taking a test, relying on a calculator or other aids if such aids have been

          forbidden, and preparing an assignment in consultation with another person

          when the instructor expects the work to be done independently. In other words,

          cheating occurs when a student makes use of any unauthorized aids or

           materials.  Furthermore, any student who provides unauthorized assistance in

           academic work is also guilty of cheating.

      2.    Plagiarism is a specific type of cheating.  It occurs when a student passes off as

           his or her own the ideas or words of another person, when s/he presents as a

           new and original idea or product anything which in fact is derived from an existing

           work, or when s/he makes use of any work or production already created by

           someone else without giving credit to the source. In short, plagiarism is the use

           of unacknowledged materials in the preparation of assignments.   Thus, the

           student must take care to avoid plagiarism in research or term papers, art

           projects, architectural designs, musical compositions, science reports, laboratory

           experiments, and the like.

 

 C.  Penalties

      The University considers both cheating and plagiarism serious offenses.  The

      minimum penalty for a student guilty of either dishonest act is a grade of "zero" for the

                assignment in question. The maximum penalty is dismissal from the University.

 

All assignments are deemed to be individual’s work only. Any breach of the above regulations will be dealt with severely.

 

COURSE EVALUATION

Students will have the opportunity to evaluate the course by completing the student evaluation of instruction administered by the university towards the end of the semester.

 

 

EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURES

A map of this floor is posted near the elevator marking the evacuation route and the Designated Rescue Area.  This is an area where emergency service personnel will go first to look for individuals who need assistance in exiting the building.  Students who may need assistance should identify themselves to the teaching faculty.
 

 

COURSE SPECIFIC READING

 

Non-English transcription

1.            Ball, M. J., Müller, N., Rutter, B. and Klopfenstein, M. (forthcoming) My client’s using non-English sounds! A tutorial in advanced phonetic transcription. Part 1: Consonants. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

2.            Ball, M. J., Müller, N., Klopfenstein, M. and Rutter, B. (under review) My client’s using non-English sounds! A tutorial in advanced phonetic transcription. Part 2: Vowels and Diacritics. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

3.            Rutter, B., Klopfenstein, M., Ball, M. J., and Müller, N. (under review) My client’s using non-English sounds! A tutorial in advanced phonetic transcription. Part 3: Prosody and Atypical Sounds. Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

 

Models of Speech Production and Perception

4.            Paper to be announced.

5.            Paper to be announced

 

Articulatory versus phonological disorders

6.            Ball, M. J. and Müller, N. (2002) The use of the terms phonetics and phonology in the description of disordered speech. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 4, 95-108.

 

Clinical Phonology Theories

            Chapters from Ball, M. J., Müller, N. and Rutter, B. (in press 2009) Phonology for

 Communication Disorders. New York: Psychology Press.

 

Assessment: PROPH, PROP, PACS

              Chapters from Crystal, D. (1982) Profiling Linguistic Disability. London:

  Edward Arnold; and

7.            Ball, M. J. and Müller, N. (1997) A comparison of two phonological profiles. Journal of Communication Disorders, 30, 171-204.

 

Sonority

8.            Code, C. and Ball, M. J. (1994) Syllabification in aphasic recurring utterances: contributions of Sonority Theory. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 8, 257-265.

9.            Klopfenstein, M. and Ball, M. J. (2009) An analysis of the sonority hypothesis and cluster realization in a child with phonological disorder. Unpublished ms.

 

Thomas

10.        Ball, M. J., Manuel, R. and Müller, N. (2004) Deapicalization and Velodorsal Articulation as Learned Behaviors: A Videofluorographic Study. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 20, 153-162.

 

Susan

11.        Ball, M. J., Müller, N. and Damico, H. (2003) Double Onset Syllable Structure in a Speech Disordered Child. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 5, 37-40.

 

Robert

12.        Ball, M. J., Lowry, O. and McInnis, L. (2006) Distributional and Stylistic Variation in /r/-Misarticulations: A case Study. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 20, 119-124.

13.        Müller, N., Ball, M. J. and Rutter, N. (2008) An idiosyncratic case of /r/ disorder: Application of principles from Systemic Phonology and Systemic Functional Linguistics.  Asia-Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 11, 269-281.

 

Clive

14.        Ball, M. J., Code, C., Tree, J., Dawe, K. and Kay, J. (2004) Phonetic and phonological analysis of progressive speech degeneration: a case study. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 18, 447-462.

15.        Ball, M. J. Rutter, B. and Code, C. (2008) Phonological Analyses of a case of Progressive Speech Degeneration. Asia-Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 11, 305-312.

 

Jarrod

               Papers from Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 8 (3), including:

16.        Müller, N., Ball, M. J. and Rutter, B. (2006) A Profiling Approach to Intelligibility Problems. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 8, 176-189.  

 

A cognitive approach to phonology:

17.        Ball, M. J. (2003) Clinical applications of a cognitive phonology. Phoniatrics, Logopedics, Vocology, 28, 63-69.

18.        Ball, M. J. and Müller, N. (2009) Clinical Phonology. In Wei, L., and Cook, V. (Eds.) Contemporary Applied Linguistics, Volume 2: Language for the Real World. London: Continuum. Pp. 202-222.

 

 

 

 

 

TEXT

There is no course text as such, but either of the following may be found useful:

Bernthal, J., Bankson, N. and Flipsen, P. (2008) Articulation and Phonological Disorders, 6th edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Creaghead, N., Newman, P. and Secord, W. (1989). Assessment and Remediation of Articulatory and Phonological Disorders, 2nd  Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Supplementary Reading

Ball, M. J. and Kent, R. (Eds) (1997) The New Phonologies. San Diego: Singular.

Ball, M., Rahilly, J. and Tench, P. (1996) The Phonetic Transcription of Disordered Speech. San Diego: Singular.

Elbert, M. and Gierut, J. (1986) Handbook of Clinical Phonology. Austin: Pro-Ed.

Fletcher, P. and Garman, M. (Eds) (1979) Language acquisition. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Grunwell, P. (1987) Clinical Phonology. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.

Grunwell, P. (1990) Developmental Speech Disorders. New York: Churchill Livingstone.

Ingram, D. (1981) Procedures for the phonological analysis of children’s language. Baltimore: University Park Press.

Ingram, D. (1989) First Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ingram, D. (1989) Phonological Disability in children. 2nd Ed. London: Cole and Whurr.

Locke, J. (1983) Phonological acquisition and change. New York: Academic Press.

Shriberg, L. and Kwiatkowski, J. (1980) Natural Process Analysis. New York: Wiley.

Yavaş, M. (1998) Phonological development and disorders. San Diego: Singular.

 


Schedule

 

Week

Day & date

Topic

Readings

Assignment

1

T August 25

Non-English transcription 1: Consonants

Article 1

 

R August 27

Non-English transcription 2: Vowels & Diacritics

Article 2

 

2

T September 1

Non-English transcription 3: Prosody

Article 3

 

R September 3

Non-English transcription 4: Atypical sounds

Article 3

 

3

T September 8

Models of speech production & perception: Levelt

Article 4

 

R September 10

Models of speech production & perception: Wells, etc

Article 5

 

4

T September 15

Articulatory versus phonological disorders

Article 6

 

R September 17

Clinical Phonology theories 1

Chapters from Ball et al 2009

 

5

T September 22

Clinical Phonology theories 2

Chapters from Ball et al 2009

 

R September 24

Assessment: PROPH & PROP

Handout & article 7

 

6

T September 29

Assessment: PACS

Handout & article 7

* Assignment 1 hand-in date

R October 1

FALL

BREAK

 

7

T October 6

Private study: prepare

 

 

R October 8

For assignment 2

 

 

8

T October 13

Sonority 1

Article 8

 

R October 15

Sonority 2

Article 9

 

9

T October 20

Thomas

Article 10

 

R October 22

Susan

Article 11

 

10

T October 27

Robert

Article 12

 

R October 29

Robert

Article 13

 

11

T November 3

Clive

Article 14

 

R November 5

Clive

Article 15

 

12

T November 10

Jarrod

Special issue inc.

 

R November 12

Jarrod

Article 16

* Assignment 2 hand-in date

13

T November 17

Jarrod

 

 

R November 19

ASHA

CONVENTION

 

14

T November 24

A cognitive approach to clinical phonology

Articles 17 & 18

 

R November 26

THANKS

GIVING

 

15

T December 1

A cognitive approach to clinical phonology

Articles 17 & 18

 

R December 3

Revision

 

 

16

 

EXAM

 

 

 

* Hand-in day for homework assignments