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NOTE:
The
next admitted cohort will start in fall '08. The course sequence, as listed
below, is for this new cohort.
 FIRST
YEARS uses Blackboard to
manage our "virtual classroom." Each course features lesson topics,
or "learning units," which typically span one or two weeks. Each
unit introduces the topic, gives assigned readings, and lists required
activities in which you will participate. Everything you need to complete
your exercises will be with each lesson unit.
Our course demo, which will take you about
2 hours to complete, covers the features you can expect to see in the certificate
courses. You will be required to complete this Blackboard tutorial when
accepted into the program. However, if you prefer not to take the time
to do the full tutorial now, you can take a short
course tour instead.
The FIRST YEARS courses (below) are offered for academic credit.
The five courses listed below are taken in sequence, one a semester beginning
in the fall session.
 An
overview of relevant issues in educating young children with hearing loss,
with the focus on the early childhood population from birth to 8 years.
3 credit hours. A Quality Matters
recognized course. *
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Unit 1. Working with Families and Teams
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Unit 2. Basic Speech Acoustics
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Unit 3. Audiology Interpretation
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Unit 4. Hearing Technologies
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Unit 5. Normal Aspects of Speech, Language and Auditory Development
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Unit 6. Emergent Literacy
* This logo recognizes that this course met FIPSE Quality
Matters review standards. The Quality Matters program is a faculty-centered
peer course review Quality Assurance process. Review criteria are linked
to external standards; criteria and process are supported through instructional
design principles; and the process is vetted by faculty experts. Quality
Matters is sponsored by MarylandOnline,
Inc. and was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education Fund
for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education/FIPSE.
Behavioral and physiologic assessment of hearing in children and how
these measures are used in aural habilitation. Fundamentals of hearing
instrument technology including the selection and fitting of hearing aids
and cochlear implants. 4 credit hours.
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Unit 1. Development of the Hearing Mechanism
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Unit 2. When Something Goes Wrong: Hearing Loss in Children & Its Causes
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Unit 3. Newborn Hearing Screening & Follow Up
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Unit 4. Audiological Assessment
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Unit 5. Amplification Options
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Unit 6. Cochlear Implants
Fundamentals of speech production including the acoustic characteristics
of normal and disordered speech. 2 credit hours.
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Unit 1. Acoustic Phonetics: What and Why?
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Unit 2. The Primary Acoustic Dimensions of Sound, or Wow! Look What Your
Ears Can Do!
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Unit 3. The Mechanics of Sounds in English: Sources and Filters
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Unit 4. Acoustic Correlates of Consonants
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Unit 5. Speech Perception
Developmental milestones for the expression and reception of oral language.
The impact of hearing loss on development and effective intervention strategies
for remediation. 3 credit hours.
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Unit 1. Foundations: How and Why Children Learn to Talk
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Unit 2. Milestones: Communication Development
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Unit 3. Parents as Teachers
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Unit 4. Teaching Strategies: Infants and Toddlers
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Unit 5. Teaching Strategies: Preschoolers, 3 - 5 Years
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Unit 6. Teaching Strategies: The Elementary Years, K-3
The definition, characteristics, and theoretical bases of emergent
literacy and their application at home and at school to facilitate the
development of literacy skills. 3 credit hours.
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Unit 1. Hearing and Literacy: Why They are Important and How Hearing Makes
Literacy Easier
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Unit 2. Theories of Literacy: What Is Known Currently About How Reading
and Writing Work?
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Unit 3. Spoken Language: Making the Move from Speaking to Reading and Writing
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Unit 4. Learning to Read: How to “Normalize” the Process
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Unit 5. Learning to Write: How to Work with Writing Along with Reading
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Unit 6. What Can Be Accomplished? And Other Questions …
The UNC Registrar's Office maintains
listings of academic calendars, including semester
schedules. For information relating specifically to FIRST YEARS
registration, see our pages on Admission/Registration/Tuition.
An integral component of the FIRST YEARS certification program
is a planned, "hands on" mentored experience
at carefully selected centers and schools across
the nation. The timing and duration of the mentored experience is designed
to ensure optimal integration of the certificate instruction into professional
practice.
To learn more about mentorship requirements for students, see Participating
in the Mentorship Experience.
To learn more about site mentorship requirements, see Becoming
a Mentorship Site. |
