Week - 1 |
Introduction to cognitive development: definition, content, historical background, and related disciplines. |
Week - 2 |
A general review of the brain and cognitive psocesses I: Input, sensory storage, perception, pattern recognition, attention, and filtering. |
Week - 3 |
Reviewing the cognitive processes II: Memory, types of memory, Information Processing Model. |
Week - 4 |
Reviewing the cognitive processes III: Human intelligence, concept and theories. |
Week - 5 |
Language and cognition: Cognitive processes and their relation to speech and language. |
Week - 6 |
Cognitive processes in children I: Basic and higher-level mental functioning. |
Week - 7 |
Cognitive processes in children II: Development of concepts, casuality, and problem solving. |
Week - 8 |
Theories and theorists of cognitive development and their reflections on language. |
Week - 9 |
The impact of hearing loss on language and cognition I: Relationships between memory and heaing loss. |
Week - 10 |
The impact of hearing loss on language and cognition II: Relationships between hearing loss, speech-language, and cognition. |
Week - 11 |
A general review of the research focusing on language and cognition in hearing impaired children. |
Week - 12 |
General evaluation of the course. |