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sfsu.edu>SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR DOCTORAL AND ADVANCED MASTER'S STUDENTS NEW DOCTORAL EMPHASIS AND GRADUATE SEMINARS IN "ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS" A new emphasis in "Atypical Developmental Psycholinguistics" within the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education (University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University) will begin fall 1996. A brief description of the new emphasis and associated required coursework is enclosed. As part of this specialization, three new graduate seminars (SPED 921, 922, and 923) focusing on language and literacy issues in exceptional or "atypical" children and adolescents presenting sensory, cognitive, linguistic, and/or motoric disabilities will be offered on the San Francisco State University campus during the 1996-97 academic year (see enclosed seminar descriptions). These seminars will be open to doctoral as well as advanced master's students. Students with a background in Special Education, Psychology, Linguistics, Deaf Education, Communicative Disorders and related disciplines are welcome and encouraged to enroll as long as they satisfy the prerequisite requirements. Graduate students from Bay Area universities that are members of the Consortium may also register for these seminars. If you are a graduate student registered on any campus of the University of California (UC), you may register at San Francisco State University (SFSU) as an Intercampus Exchange Graduate Student with the approval of your graduate adviser, the chair of the department in which you want to study, the dean of the Graduate Division on the home campus, and the dean of the Graduate Division on the host campus. You may obtain an application form for the Intercampus Exchange Program for Graduate Students from the office of the dean of the Graduate Division on your home UC campus. You should complete and file the application form at least three weeks before the opening of the term of enrollment on the SFSU campus. With the approval of the Graduate Division and your department, you may register and pay applicable fees at your home UC campus and be exempt from tuition and fees at SFSU. You may enroll for only one course per semester at SFSU. Important: please obtain an "Add Form" from the Department of Special Education at SFSU and bring it to the professor on the first day of instruction. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------- Emphasis in "Atypical Developmental Psycholinguistics" Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education Department of Special Education College of Education San Francisco State University and Graduate School of Education University of California at Berkeley This effort represents the establishment of a new emphasis in "Atypical Developmental Psycholinguistics" (ADP) within the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). The program emphasis is co-directed by Dr. Philip M. Prinz, Professor of Special Education at SFSU and Dr. Dan Slobin, Professor of Psychology at UCB. The Joint Doctoral emphasis in "Atypical Developmental Psycholinguistics" relates the study of language behavior, its development and use by children and adolescents to atypical development and exceptionality, with a particular focus on linguistic and cognitive differences and their social, psychological and neurological correlates. The program emphasis covers the study of language development across various modalities: spoken, signed and written and includes information on American Sign Language (ASL) as well as alternative/augmentative communication. Students select between two specialization strands within this emphasis: Strand 1 involves research and coursework on language acquisition as related to cognitive, linguistic and/or motoric disability and focuses on language development in specific atypical populations (i.e., autistic and severely emotionally disturbed, specific language impaired, language/learning disabled, severely/multiply disabled). Strand 2 of the emphasis covers the study of deafness, especially as it relates to the psycholinguistic aspects of sign language and sign language acquisition with children and adolescents presenting sensory disabilities. The social and cultural contexts of communicative interactions and their implications for language and literacy acquisition, assessment and intervention will be a central focus of both interdisciplinary specialization strands. Dr. Philip M. Prinz Department of Special Education San Francisco State University office: (415) 338-7655 email: pmMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue