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Winter 2012
Online Graduate Course in Word Finding
SPE 525: Child Word-Finding: Intervention for Students with Language
and Learning Disabilities
What:
SPE 525, a 2 hour online graduate course in Child Word Finding will be
taught this winter by Dr. Diane German using the book, Word Finding
Intervention Program, Second Edition (WFIP-2). Participants in this
course will study one of the most Prevalent and challenging language difficulties
among school children today, Word Finding Difficulties. See course description below. Through their studies students will:
- Acquire an understanding of the lexical access system underlying
typical and atypical expressive language;
- Learn to profile the three most prevalent Word-Finding error patterns;
- Study a comprehensive intervention program, including retrieval
strategy instruction, for learners challenged with Word Finding;
- Gain insights as to how Word-Finding difficulties impact on oral
reading and written language; and
- Become familiar with Word-Finding accommodations in the classroom
that reduce the retrieval load but not the work load.
Who: Professor Diane J. German, Ph.D.
Where: Online from National-Louis University, Chicago,
Il
When: January 24, 2012 to February 28, 2012. (Students will complete
final work from February 26 to to March 6, 2012. Final work due March 6, 2012).
How: Registration begins October 24, 2011. For registration specifics, email Dr. Diane German at dgerman@nl.edu.
Tuition: Tuition for this 2 hr graduate course is $700. Fax credit card payments only to 847-465-4746.
(Note that there is only one telephone number for the graduate registrar.)
Personal check payments should be sent with your registration to: Graduate
Registrar, National Louis University, 1000 Capitol Drive, Wheeling, IL 60090-7201.
Please Email Diane J. German with
questions or to receive introductory course material once you have registered
for this class.
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