Course syllabus for Typical Speech, Language and Reading Acquisition
Typisk tal-, språk- och läsutveckling
Versions of this syllabus:
Autumn 2026
Essential data
Course code: 2LG076
Course name: Typical Speech, Language and Reading Acquisition
Credits: 6
Form of Education: Higher education, study regulation of 2007
Main field of study: Not applicable
Level: GX - First cycle
Grading scale: Fail (U) or pass (G)
Department: Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology
Decided by: Utbildningsnämnden CLINTEC
Decision date: 2026-03-09
Course syllabus valid from: Autumn semester 2026
Literature and other teaching aids
Compulsory reading
- Clark, E.V. (2017). Language in Children. London: New York. ISBN: 9781315537405
- Aksu-Koç, A.; Aktan-Erciyes, A., Narrative Discourse: Developmental Perspectives, Ingår i: Bar-On, Amalia; Dattner, Elitzur; Ravid, Dorit, Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives, Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018] - 1 online resource (969 p.) ISBN: 9781614514909, LIBRIS-ID: w5x2lk7nt16gw0zc, Online access for KIB, p. 329-347,
- Castles, A.; Rastle, K.; Nation, K., Ending the reading wars: Reading acquisition from novice to expert, 2018 Ingår i: Psychological science in the public interest.: a journal of the American Psychological Society : a supplement to Psychological science, Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publ., 2000- ISSN: 1539-6053, LIBRIS-ID: 3229891, Online access for KIB, 19 (2018) : 1, p. 5-51,
- Namasivayam AK, Coleman D, O'Dwyer A, van Lieshout P. Speech Sound Disorders in Children: An Articulatory Phonology Perspective. Front Psychol. 2020 Jan 28;10:2998. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02998
- Kidd, E.; Donnelly, S.; Christiansen, M. H., Individual differences in language Acquisition and Processing, 2018 Ingår i: Trends in cognitive sciences., Cambridge : Elsevier, 1997- LIBRIS-ID: 9033775, Table of Contents / Abstracts, 22 (2018) : 2, p. 186-223,
- Matthews, D.; Biney, H.; Abbot-Smith, K., Individual differences in childrens pragmatic ability: A review of associations with formal language, social cognition, and executive functions, 2018 Ingår i: Language learning and development: the official journal of the Society for Language Development., Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2005- ISSN: 1547-3341, LIBRIS-ID: 11351849, Online access for KIB, 14 (2018) : 3, p. 186-223,
- Munson, B.; Edwards, J.; Beckman, M. E., Phonological knowledge in typical and atypical speechsound development, 2005 Ingår i: Topics in language disorders, 1980-2003 LIBRIS-ID: 11241908, Online access for KIB, 25 (2005) : 3, p. 190-206,
- Rowe, M. L.; Weisleder, A., Language development in context, 2020 Ingår i: Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, uuuu-uuuu ISBN: 26407922, LIBRIS-ID: 7nn1m2vk5hjv9zcz, (2020) : 2, p. 201-223,
- Unsworth, S., Current issues in multilingual first language acquisition, 2013 Ingår i: Annual review of applied linguistics, 2001- ISSN: 1471-6356, LIBRIS-ID: 9356669, Online access for KIB, (2013) : 33, p. 21-50,
Recommended reading
- Nettelbladt, U. & Salameh, E. (2022). Språket hos enspråkiga och flerspråkiga barn: utveckling och svårigheter. (Upplaga 1). Lund: Studentlitteratur. ISBN: 9789144126715
- Norén, S. (Red.). (2025). Lära barn att läsa: Vägen från fonologisk medvetenhet till god läsförståelse (4:e uppl.). LegiLexi. [Elektronisk resurs]: https://a.storyblok.com/f/129463/x/1fb3c2be6b/lara-barn-att-lasa-bok-2025.pdf (introduktion samt kapitel 1, 3 och 4)
Extended reading
- Clark, E. V. (2024). First Language Acquisition(4th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781009294522
- McLeod, S. (2024). Multilingual children's speech development. Charles Sturt University. https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acquisition/multilingual-childrens-speech-development. [Med YouTube-presentationer om talutveckling för 70+ språk: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXcSAl_dA7arRMrE0qdxLuzGChY1LgY2]
- Hustad, K. C., Mahr, T. J., Natzke, P., & Rathouz, P. J. (2021). Speech Development Between 30 and 119 Months in Typical Children I: Intelligibility Growth Curves for Single-Word and Multiword Productions. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 64(10), 3707–3719. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00142
- Lundine, J. P., & McCauley, R. J. (2016). A Tutorial on Expository Discourse: Structure, Development, and Disorders in Children and Adolescents. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(3), 306–320. https://doi.org/10.1044/2016_AJSLP-14-0130
- Nippold, Marilyn A., Later language development: school-age children, adolescents, and young adults, Fourth Edition : Austin, Texas : PRO-ED, 2016 - x, 325 pages ISBN: 9781416410133, LIBRIS-ID: 19756405,