COMD 2359 Speech Science
This course integrates 4 related disciplines including the physics of sound/acoustics, anatomy and physiology, phonetics, and speech articulation. In addition to providing students with the required science background, it promotes analytical skills and problem solving in speech language pathology and audiology. This course integrates the physiology of the 5 systems body that serve communication with the various clinical applications and biophysiological measures. Students will study respiratory volumes and capacities and apply them to speech production in the general population and in individuals with speech disorders. They will study the dynamics of vocal fold vibration, airflow dynamics and various instruments and measures pertaining to the functionality of vocal fold production and vocal fold pathology. The course also focuses on the unique properties of individual phonemes and their respiratory and phonatory requirements. Other major topics that are deeply explored in this course are the speech motor system and instrumentation that is used for vocal production and sound analysis.