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2013-2014 Graduate Studies Bulletin 
    
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SPCH 212 - Communication in Healthy Aging


Semester Hours: 3
Summer
This course focuses on the biologic, psychologic, and physiologic changes that affect cognition and communication across the lifespan. The processes that underlie typical development of speech, language and hearing at the later part of the lifespan are contrasted with pathological changes in communication. Medical, sociocultural and linguistic aspects of aging are discussed with reference to the impact on the health care system.

Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Available to graduate students in audiology, speech-language pathology, gerontology, psychology, sociology; counseling, special education, and rehabilitation.





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