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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - SPA6564
Tracking Number - 1564
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2008-06-12
- Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
- College: BC
- Budget Account Number: USF01TPA121900 10000
- Contact Person: Ruth Bahr
- Phone: 43182
- Email: rbahr@cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: SPA
- Number: 6564
- Full Title: Seminar in Aging, Cognition, and Communication
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Sem. in Aging, Cog., and Comm.
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: None
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: This course focuses on the interdependence of communication and cognition in older adults, emphasizing relationships among physical health, social context, cognition, and communication.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This course will provide the students with the knowledge base needed to work with those older adults who have cognitive impairments based on healthy aging and pathological conditions.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course is an elective for those students in our Master’s program. It provides essential information for students who desire to work with the elderly upon graduation. This course also would be of interest to students who would like to focus their clinical practice on clients who are older adults.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? 5 times
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) The minimum qualifications, set out by our accrediting agency, are a PhD with an emphasis in aging and related treatment/rehabilitation. Clinical experience in this area is helpful.
- Objectives: Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: (1) describe the demographic characteristics, developmental processes, and medical advances, environmental factors, and reimbursement trends contributing to cognitive/communicative needs of older adults, 2) outline differences between “healthy” aging processes and pathological conditions affecting communication and cognition in older adults, 3) choose appropriate assessment instruments and strategies for the differential diagnosis of cognitive/communicative impairments in older adults, 4) access and describe appropriate direct and indirect management strategies for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementing conditions, and other diseases/disorders of older adulthood, 5) describe common issues for caregivers dealing with older adults and demonstrate awareness of strategies for assisting caregivers of older adults with cognitive/communicative problems, 6) demonstrate knowledge of academic references, professional specialty groups, and community resources available for the study of aging, cognition and communication and management of communication disorders in older adulthood, 7) critically read and evaluate references and resources on cognition and communication in older adults.
- Learning Outcomes: This course is designed to provide a knowledge and skills acquisition (KASA) experience for students who are preparing to apply for the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech-Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
- Major Topics: Framework for Studying Cognition and Communication in Older Adults, Healthy Aging – Physiological Changes in the Body, Healthy Aging – Cognition –Focus on Attention, Memory and Executive Functions, Healthy Aging – Speech & Language, Communication and Cognition in Context, Pathological Aging Conditions Associated with Cognitive/Communicative Disorders, Cognitive/Communicative Screening and In-Depth Assessment of Older Adults, Treatment of Dementia: Indirect and Direct Approaches, Dementia - Focus on Caregiver Needs
- Textbooks: Park, D. & Schwartz, N. (2001). Cognitive aging: A primer. New York: Psychology Press.
Shadden, B. & Toner, M. A. (1997). Aging and communication: For clinicians by clinicians. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.