CMSD 5110 Cognitive-Communication Disorders

This graduate course includes nature, assessment, and remediation of a variety of cognitive-communication disorders including traumatic brain injury, right hemisphere brain damage, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. Additional professional practice issues include issues of aging, cultural diversity, and the rationale and methods for providing person/family centered treatment.

Registration Name

Cognitive-Communication Disorders

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Demorest: Fall, Athens: Fall 1 time per academic year

Student Learning Outcomes

Student learning outcomes and associated CAA-ASHA standards:

1. Describe how cognition and communication interact. (IV-B)
2. Identify various etiologies and components of conditions that involve cognitive-communication disorders including: traumatic brain injury, right hemisphere brain damage and various dementias, as well as a basic understanding of issues related to aging and communication. (IV-C)
3. Plan a theoretically grounded, functionally based, and person focused course of treatment to compensate for, or remediate, a cognitive-communication disorder. (IV-D)
4. Students will describe research and evidenced-based practice as it relates to cognitive-communication disorders in adults and analyze, synthesize and evaluate research for integration into evidence-based clinical practice. (IV-D & F)
5. Students will recognize current contemporary research and professional issues in the management of cognitive-communication disorders in adults. (IV-F)
6. Students will demonstrate ethical conduct regarding assessment and invention for management of cognitive-communication disorders in adults. (IV-E).
7. Students will outline principles of IPP approaches for cognitive-communication disorders in adults (IV-D; V-B)