DIS STD 131

Main Course

Alternative Approaches to Language Acquisition

Description

Seminar, four hours. Examination of everyday experience of language delay, disorder, difference, and difficulty from disability studies perspective. Presentation of key concepts and terminology of culture, disability, and language use. Discussions and assignments critically evaluate findings on language acquisition by asking questions from disability studies about inclusion, individual- and socially constructed experience, and power. P/NP or letter grading.