This module enhances your competence in a range of counselling skills for use with people who have hearing difficulties and their communication partners,...

This module enhances your competence in a range of counselling skills for use with people who have hearing difficulties and their communication partners, families of hearing impaired children and patients with tinnitus and hyperacusis.

This is a compulsory module in the MSc / PG diploma Advanced Audiology.

The first five years are a fundamental time in children’s development because they are in the process of acquiring a range of social, emotional,...

The first five years are a fundamental time in children’s development because they are in the process of acquiring a range of social, emotional, behavioural and cognitive abilities that are foundational in terms of their long-term wellbeing. Children’s development during this period is also ‘relational’ in that it is strongly influenced by the caregiving that they receive. For example, very young children are highly dependent on their parents/caregivers during the first two years of life to regulate themselves, and their attachment relationship with these primary care-givers is key to the development of such abilities. The type of attachment that a child develops also influences many other aspects of their development including their behaviour, peer relationships and learning. The aim of the CYP IAPT Under 5s module is to train students to assess 0-5s in the context of these dyadic/triadic relationships and to collaboratively formulate treatment plans with families in ways that are consistent with evidence based practice. Students will additionally be trained in two evidence based models of intervention which they will be able to offer to families.

This module introduces students to the scientific study of the structure of sentences. We ask what sort of knowledge must be attributed to someone who...

This module introduces students to the scientific study of the structure of sentences. We ask what sort of knowledge must be attributed to someone who "knows a language" and begin to answer that question by developing some of the essential building blocks of natural language grammars.

The aims of the course are: to introduce students to the scientific study of the structure of sentences; to analyse data sets and formulate appropriate generalisations that characterise them; to discover how such generalisations can be captured by abstract linguistic principles.

By the end of the module students should be familiar with the following descriptive terminology and analytic tools of syntactic theory: word classes and grammatical categories, subcategorization, constituent structure, tree diagrams, thematic roles, grammatical function, control, raising, movement, binding, syntactic rule. At the end of the course, students will have a basic understanding of the grammatical mechanisms involved in simple declarative sentences and in questions in English and other languages. This should enable them to tackle intermediate work in syntax in term 2. Students will be able to defend their analyses by bringing diagnostic tools to bear directly and indirectly on the analysis. Students will have gained an understanding of the process of developing and defending abstract syntactic theories and will have begun developing a curious and critical stance towards novel data and theoretical claims.