Like speakers of different languages throughout the world, many Bengali-speaking children, as well as adults nowadays, are suffering from diverse speech and language disorders on a regular basis. Although Bangladesh lacks exact statistics of people with speech and language impairments, it could be assumed that every year the number is certainly increasing. Accordingly, Bengali people getting stroke, tumor and trauma, or even suffering from developmental disorders like autism, dyslexia or dysgraphia immediately require proper investigation, intervention, therapy and treatment to get rid of such impairments to the maximum extent. Hence, Bangladesh badly needs to introduce a formal academic program like speech and therapy in tertiary level education.
13 courses · 60 credit hours across 2 terms
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSLP 5101 | Communication, culture and Disability | 4 | In this course, we will explain the concept of disability from the point of view of cultural, social and religious values and understandings. It will also compare and contrast disability narrative, disability protection rights, disability and media, art and creative aspect of culture in enforcing the concept of disability. Finally, this course will provide different theoretical frameworks of disability. |
| MSLP 5102 | Learning Disorders and Lityeracy | 4 | This course will cover the theoretical base of literacy and Learning Disorders, assessment strategies and instructional procedures for the literacy development of students with learning disabilities including reading and writing disorders. The course will focus on how a speech and language pathologist (SLP) participates in comprehensive support systems and facilitates intensive literacy instruction. |
| MSLP 5103 | Advanced Audiology: Hearing Aids and Technology | 4 | This is advanced hearing science to provide the students knowledge and information of hearing aids and technology widely used in the field of audiology. This course will help the students to gain appropriate skills and techniques to apply hearing aids and technology to the persons with severe hearing problems. |
| MSLP 5104 | Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies | 4 | This course will provide a variety of assessment and treatment facilities involved in the multidisciplinary care of patients with cleft lip/palate and craniofacial conditions. There will be a particular focus on speech-language and hearing issues. |
| MSLP 5105 | Advising and Counseling in Communication Disorders | 4 | This course will provide the fundamental aspects of advising and counseling with special emphasis on communication disorders. It will also describe techniques, procedures and the importance of counseling to provide appropriate speech and language therapy. |
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSLP 5206 | Rehabilitation of people with SLP: Clinic Preparation and Mangement | 4 | This is a fundamental course in the field of speech and language pathology to discuss the issues of rehabilitation of persons with speech and language problems. This course will describe the basic stuff to providing appropriate rehabilitation procedures and mechanisms with special reference to practicing and setting up a clinic center. |
| MSLP 5207 | Speech and Language Disorders Assessment and Treatment in Children | 4 | This course will provide a variety of assessments and treatments involved in childhood speech and language disorders. The goal of this course is for the students to familiar with intervention procedures for child and developmental speech and language disorders. |
| MSLP 5208 | Speech and Language Disorders Assessment and Treatment for Adults | 4 | This course will provide a variety of assessment and treatment facilities involved in the adult’s speech and language disorders. The goal of this course is for the students to familiar with various assessment and intervention procedures to treat acquired speech and language disorders. |
| MSLP 5209 | Clinical Placticum | 8 | This internship is designed for the students to belong to the non-thesis group to provide them practical experience to diagnose as well as treat persons with speech and language disorders. In this course internship, students will have the scope to meet persons suffering from communication disorders and give proper interventions. |
| MSLP 5210 | Research in Communication Disorders | 4 | This is an advanced course in the field of communication disorders to describe the fundamentals of research aspects. This course will explain the basic stuff of conducting project and research works, especially theories, methods and procedures used in the field of speech and language pathology. |
| MSLP 5211 | Professional and Technical Writing in SLP | 4 | This course is designed to provide the students fundamentals of writing research papers in the field of communication disorders. This course will help them to get pragmatic knowledge and skills with a view to preparing very high-standard research papers to be published in international journals. |
| MSLP 5212 | Dissertation | 8 | At the beginning of the 2nd semester the best 10 (ten) students, based on the result of BSS final CGPA, will be assigned to conduct a research work to write a dissertation which includes objectives rationale, literature review, methods, data analysis, result and discussion. In this course, students will work on a selected topic of dissertation prepared under supervision and guidance of recognized faculty of the department and will submit it at the end of this semester. Students having less than a 3.5 GPA will be offered another course entitled MSLP. 5209 Clinical Practicum instead of research as well as dissertation. |
| MSLP 5213 | Comprehensive (Theory + Practical) | 4 | This course is designed to evaluate students’ comprehensive theoretical knowledge that they have developed from the compulsory courses taught in the 1st and 2nd semesters. At the same time, they will be able to explain the knowledge and information of these courses according to their ability. |