SPE 526 Expressive Language Difficulties: Impact on Academic Learning

Differentiated assessment and instructional procedures are explored for students with Expressive Language Difficulties due to disability or second language learning. Focused on children and adolescents, this course provides a study of: 1) definitions/ characteristics representative of this population; 2) theoretical models to explain/contrast Receptive and Expressive language processing in oral language, oral reading, and writing; 3) the impact of language difficulties on academic learning; 4) language-based differentiated assessment and instruction for classroom discourse, oral reading, and written language instruction; and 5) corresponding instructional technology applications. There is a field component focused on application of course content. Pre-requisite(s): SPE 500. Co-requisite(s): None. 2 semester hours