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Winter 2010
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 by Dr. Diane German this winter
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 Children in School today, Child Word Finding. 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 19,
2010 to February 16, 2010. (Students will complete final work during the
weeks between February 16 to March 2, 2010. Final
Work due March 2, 2010.)
How: Registration
begins October 26, 2009. Check back for specific registration information or E mail Dr. Diane J. German at dgerman@nl.edu.
Tuition: Special
Tuition Rate for this 2 hr graduate course is $654. 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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