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 describe the biological, medical and socio-cultural foundations of human behaviour
• 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 the steps of the implementation process of interventions and identify the stakeholders involved
• Explain the various issues underlying any intervention, and justify them according to their application context
• Provide clear, accurate, and reasoned information
• Provide information (both orally and in writing) regarding the fields of psychology, educational sciences and language sciences in an intelligible manner, with a good command of communication techniques.
• Write bibliographic references and results of statistical analysis in a standardised way (according to APA standards)
• Structure data gathered during the analysis of an intervention request
• Collaborate, work in a team
• Interact effectively with other students to carry out collaborative projects.
• Demonstrate active listening and empathy in the context of an interpersonal situation
• Identify and appropriately implement the different ways of working in a group
• Grow personally and professionally
• Identify the different stakeholders involved in the practice of speech-language therapy
• Develop their scientific curiosity and open-mindedness
• Understand the fundamentals related to the scientific approach in psychology, educational sciences and speech therapy
• Conduct relevant research from scientific literature, from both Francophone and Anglophone references, and select appropriate elements with respect to a particular research topic.
• Understand, describe and analyse the French language
• Demonstrate a perfect command of the French language, orally and in writing, in both production and understanding

Learning Outcomes of UE

At the end of this course, students will be able to describe the stages of language development, to name and describe the roles of different variables at play, to collect corpus of language productions.They will be also be able to describe the main research methodologies used in language acquisition.They will be able to carry out a study, collect and analyse language data.They will lead language simulation workshops using a battery of fun activities with families.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Neurobiological and genetic foundations of language.
Models of First Language Acquisition (UG ,  interactional theories, usage -based )
Phonological, morphosyntactic, lexical, pragmatic and metalinguistic aspects of language development
Communicative development inventories
Parental support  for language development

Prior Experience

Not applicable