Spring 2027

Language Development in Children and Adolescents

Language Development in Children and Adolescents covers communication and language development from infancy to adulthood.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.65 GPA, 75.7% A/AB (n=111 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.56 GPA, 72.7% A/AB (n=88 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.65 GPA, 83.7% A/AB (n=98 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Use appropriate terminology related to the study of language development, including terminology related to phonological, lexical, morphologic, syntactic, pragmatic, and meta-linguistic development.

  • Compare/evaluate major theories of language acquisition.

  • Discuss ways that language development relates to cognitive, social, and neurobiological development.

  • Recall and discuss the timeline of major milestones and processes related to language development.

  • Explain how language development may vary in monolingual versus bilingual individuals.

  • Explain how language use varies across individuals and cultures and discuss the implications of such variation for the identification and treatment of people with communication disorders.

  • Conduct basic descriptive analysis of language samples and interpret these analyses to determine the extent to which an individual’s language functioning is consistent with developmental expectations.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.65 GPA, 75.7% A/AB (n=111 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.56 GPA, 72.7% A/AB (n=88 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.65 GPA, 83.7% A/AB (n=98 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Communication and language development from infancy to adulthood.
  • Major theories of language acquisition.
  • Variation in language use across individuals and cultures and implications for communication disorders.

Skills

  • Use terminology for phonological, lexical, morphologic, syntactic, pragmatic, and meta-linguistic development.
  • Compare and evaluate major theories of language acquisition.
  • Conduct basic descriptive analysis of language samples and interpret results against developmental expectations.

Grades

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 4 recent terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.11 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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