Overview
What you will study
This Cognitive Communication Impairments course offered by City, University of London will encourage you to evaluate a range of relevant recent research findings and determine the implications of different cognitive communication impairments for assessment, differential diagnosis and intervention. In addition, you will learn about current theories of relations between cognition and language in different clinical populations.
Critical and reflective thinking will be promoted, both with respect to the literature and to clinical practice.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- the cognitive processes involved in language and communication
- the impact of cognitive deficits on language and communication
- the interface between cognition and language processing in children and adults with language impairments
- methods to assess cognition in relation to language and communication
- current approaches to intervention for deficits in cognition that are responsible for or related to language and communication.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 3 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
- The nominal deadline is the Wednesday before the start of term, for 10 week courses, but it will be shown on the course page for each enrollable date.
Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Communication Studies View 36 other Short Courses in Communication Studies in United KingdomAcademic requirements
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- First or second-class honours degree or equivalent in an appropriate subject
- The Licentiate Diploma of the Royal college of Speech and Language Therapists is also accepted.
If your first language is not English, one of the following is required:
- A first degree from a UK university
- A first degree from an overseas institution recognised by City, University of London as providing adequate evidence of proficiency in the English language, for example, from institutions from Australia, Canada or the United States of America.
- International English Language Test Service (IELTS) a score of 7.0 is required with no subtest below 7.0
- Pearson Test of English (Academic) score 72 required
- TOEFL 100 overall with 24 in Writing, 20 in Listening, 19 Reading and 20 Speaking
Tuition Fee
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International
1405 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1405 GBP for the full programme during 3 months. -
National
1125 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1125 GBP for the full programme during 3 months.