Basic anatomy and physiology of human speech mechanism. Description and function of respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory systems for speech and swallowing. Fundamentals of speech science related to speech and swallowing.
Athena Title
Anatomy and Speech Science
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will understand how to recognize and identify basic anatomical structures of the respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory systems for typical speech production and swallowing.
Students will understand how to recognize and identify instrumentation and technology employed for observing and measuring these systems.
Students will understand how to describe basic principles and theories that explain typical function of these systems for speech production and swallowing.
Students will understand how to recognize how instrumentation and technology help understand typical and disordered speech and swallowing.
Topical Outline
- Introduction to speech production and speech science
- Anatomical terminology
- Anatomical planes and directional terms
- Respiratory system: Anatomy
- Respiratory system: Contribution to speech production
- Respiratory system: Observation and measurement
- Phonatory system: Anatomy
- Phonatory system: Contribution to speech and swallowing
- Phonatory system: Acoustic characteristics
- Phonatory system: Observation and measurement
- Articulatory system: Anatomy
- Articulatory system: Contribution to speech and swallowing
- Articulatory system: Observation and measurement
