Speech and Hearing Science Laboratory Instruction for Undergraduate Students in Communication Sciences and Disorders

这个项目的目的是提供一个传播科学和障碍(CDIS)本科教育的示范项目，将科学和技术整合到整个课程中。设计了实验室经验和实验，以积极地让学生参与到对语音产生中关键参数的科学研究中。学生将运用与语音产生的生理和声学方面相关的问题解决技能。学生将制定假设，设计实验，并在大四时从事独立的研究探索。将实验室经验融入本科课程，将增加学生对所有言语过程之间复杂关系的理解，并增加和发展批判性思维和科学方法论的技能。建立本科水平的科学基础将：(1)允许以实验室为基础的课程，以科学探究为基础，向学生传授科学方法，研究贡献是有益的和重要的；(2)允许在学生中及早引入和积极使用科学和研究道德；以及(3)允许CDIS本身作为一个学习领域，以便为学生进入需要基础科学背景的相关领域以及进入CDIS的研究生课程做准备。各种仪器已被要求建立特定的生理和声学工作站，以允许对基础语言科学进行科学研究。拟议的项目将包括为每个工作站编写一份实验室手册。此外，项目成果将通过在专业会议上发表演讲和向适当的学术期刊提交手稿来传播。该项目成果的传播将对其他大学有用，因为它们试图改善传播学和疾病本科课程的科学基础。

The purpose of this project is to offer a model program of undergraduate education in communication sciences and disorders (CDIS) that will integrate science and technology throughout the curriculum. Laboratory experiences and experiments have been designed to actively engage students in the scientific investigation of critical parameters in speech production. Students will employ problem solving skills relative to the physiological and acoustic aspects of speech production. Students will formulate hypothesis, design experiments, and by the senior year, engage in independent research exploration. The infusion of laboratory experiences into the undergraduate curriculum will increase students understanding of the complex relationships among all speech processes and increase and develop skills in critical thinking and scientific methodology. Building the scientific base at the undergraduate level will: (1) Allow for a laboratory-based curriculum with scientific inquiry to teach students scientific methods and that research contributions are rewarding and important; (2) Allow for the early introduction and active use of a scientific and research ethic among the students; and (3) Allow CDIS to be pursued as a field of study in and of itself, in order to prepare students to enter related fields that require basic science background as well as to enter a graduate program in CDIS. Various instrumentation has been requested to set up specific physiological and acoustic work stations to allow scientific inquiry into the basic speech sciences. Incorporated into the proposed project will be the development of a laboratory manual for each work station. In addition, project outcomes will be disseminated through presentations at professional conferences and manuscript submission to an appropriate scholarly journal. Dissemination of the project results will be useful to other universities as they attempt to improve the science base in the undergraduate curriculum in communication sciences and disorders.