COURSE OFFERING
Spring 2009
Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Graduate Center of The City University of
New York
80700 Seminar in Speech and Language: Cognitive Scieances and Child Language Disorders
Mon 4:15 - 6:15pm
Instructor: Richard G.
Schwartz (rschwartz@gc.cuny.edu)
Office: 7400.12
212-817-8804 (GC)
This seminar will focus on memory (working memory, and long-term procedural and declarative memory), attention, and executive functions (including attentional control) as they relate to the language deficits in various groups of children with language impairments. We will focus on theories of these cognitive processes, research methods (various tasks, behavioral approaches, imaging, fMRI, eye tracking), empirical evidence of deficits in clinical groups of children with language impairments (e.g., SLI, autism, dyslexia), and the relations among these deficits and specific language deficits. Students will develop reading lists for the seminar on two topics and will lead discussions. Two papers will be required.
