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Live, Learn, and Thrive Alfred
Valdez Ph.D., CCC-SLP
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Office: Speech Building Room 178 Summer Office Hours: By appointment only
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Language and Cognition Laboratory |
CD 393/593 Professional Reasoning & Scientific Thinking |
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CD 525 Pediatric Language Development & Disorders |
CD 589 Clinical Practicum |
CD 505 Research Methods |
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My Courses:
Spring Semester:
CD 360/503 Language Acquisition: This course is intended to provide students with a broad overview of typical language development. The course will provide information pertaining to language developmental milestones, current theories of language development, and research topics that focus on normal language acquisition. The course will also present topics pertaining to observational language assessment (i.e., language sampling and analysis). This course is intended for undergraduate majors in communication disorders. Non-majors must enroll in CD 365 or obtain permission from the instructor to remain in this course.
CD 393/593 Professional Reasoning and Scientific Thinking: This course offers an overview of constructive thinking, problem solving, and decision making theories and strategies associated with professional reasoning and scientific thinking that are to be used academically and clinically in the transition from student to scholar to professional.
Fall Semester:
CD 360/503 Language Acquisition: This course is intended to provide students with a broad overview of typical language development. The course will provide information pertaining to language developmental milestones, current theories of language development, and research topics that focus on normal language acquisition. The course will also present topics pertaining to observational language assessment (i.e., language sampling and analysis). This course is intended for undergraduate majors in communication disorders. Non-majors must enroll in CD 365 or obtain permission from the instructor to remain in this course.
CD 525 Pediatric Language Development and Disorders: This course presents information concerning normal communication development of neonates, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The course also presents etiologies and treatment of cognitive, linguistic and social elements of communication problems in family systems.
Prerequisites: This course is limited to graduate students who
have been officially accepted into the NMSU Communication Disorders graduate
program. Those not accepted into the NMSU CD graduate program must obtain permission
from the instructor to remain enrolled in this course. A minimum grade of B-
in all graduate courses and a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 are required in order
to remain in good standing in the NMSU CD graduate program.
CD 505 Research Methods: This course offers an introduction to basic research methodology in speech-language pathology. The course presents information pertaining to basic research design and statistical analyses used in speech-language pathology with special consideration of the role of research in evidence-based practice.
Prerequisites: This course is limited to graduate students who
have been officially accepted into the NMSU Communication Disorders graduate
program. Those not accepted into the NMSU CD graduate program must obtain permission
from the instructor to remain enrolled in this course. A minimum grade of B-
in all graduate courses and a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 are required in order
to remain in good standing in the NMSU CD graduate program.
updated on 01/14/10
