Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand the theoretical and methodological fundamentals in psychology, educational sciences and language sciences to analyse a particular situation involving speech therapy
• Identify and explain the concepts, principles, and models of basic theoretical approaches in psychology, educational sciences and language sciences and their applications
• Identify and describe the biological, medical and socio-cultural foundations of human behaviour
• Explain and illustrate, with examples, human functioning, particularly in its pathological dimensions
• Describe the main methodological approaches (goals, methods, techniques and tools) to understand and explain the functioning of individuals and groups
• Understand the fundamentals of speech therapy interventions
• Describe and illustrate the different types of intervention in language sciences
• Explain the various issues underlying any intervention, and justify them according to their application context
• Understand the fundamentals related to the scientific approach in psychology, educational sciences and speech therapy
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of scientific processes
• Identify and explain the main methods (including limitations) specific to the scientific process
• Understand, describe and analyse the French language
• Demonstrate a perfect command of the French language, orally and in writing, in both production and understanding
• Describe and analyse language systems with regard to phonetics, phonemes, morphology, vocabulary, syntax and register
• Reflect metacognitively on the French language and its usage

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of the instruction, the students will master the fundamental notions in clinical phonetics, i.e. (i) in general phonetics, the anatomical, articulatory, acoustic and aerodynamic aspects of the various sub-systems involved in speech production (respiratory, phonatory and articulatory sub-systems), as well as the acoustic, auditory and perceptual aspects of the subsystems involved in speech production (mainly, the auditory system and the nervous system); (ii) the clinical parameters allowing to document and assess speech production and speech perception, with a particular focus on the data collection and analysis procedures that are commonly used in speech disorders; (iii) the speech disorders associated with each of the subsystems resulting from a variety of etiologies (functional description, nature of the disorders, etc.). They will be able to apply these notions to the analysis of an actual clinical case.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Subsystems involved in speech production and speech perception (notions of general phonetics, methodological reminders, clinical paramaters for diagnosis and assessment of disordered speech, associated speech disorders, clinical cases: Respiratory system, phonatory system, articulatory system, auditory system and perceptual system. Applications to actual clinical cases.

Prior Experience

Not applicable