Spring 2027

Voice, Craniofacial, and Fluency Disorders

Explores communication problems associated with voice disorders, orofacial anomalies, and fluency disorders to establish a foundation for understanding these conditions.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lisa Vinney3.8/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.65 GPA, 79.8% A/AB (n=84 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=100 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 89.1% A/AB (n=92 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and summarize how structures of the head and neck develop to produce communication and swallowing is vital to understanding dysfunction.

  • Identify and summarize how craniofacial disorders impair communication and swallowing, thus affecting health, well-being, and quality of life.

  • Identify and summarize how craniofacial disorders can be evaluated and treated, improving communication and swallowing and quality of life.

  • Identify and summarize how craniofacial disorders are treated with an interdisciplinary team, which includes the patient and their caregivers.

  • Identify and summarize how voice is produced and used in communication is vital to understanding dysfunction.

  • Identify and summarize how voice disorders impair communication, thus affecting health, well-being, and quality of life.

  • Identify and summarize how voice disorders can be evaluated and treated, improving communication and quality of life.

  • Identify and summarize how fluency disorders manifest and affect communication is vital to evaluation and treatment.

  • Identify and summarize how fluency disorders impact communication, thus health, well-being, and quality of life.

  • Identify and summarize how fluency disorders can be evaluated and treated, improving communication and quality of life.

  • Identify and summarize the rationale for helping individuals accept dysfluency as part of their daily life is vital to living with stuttering.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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CS&D 201, 202, 240 and Junior standing

CS&D 318

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Raw average: 5.00/5 from 2 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.65 GPA, 79.8% A/AB (n=84 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=100 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 89.1% A/AB (n=92 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LISA VINNEY is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.65 GPA, 79.8% A/AB (n=84 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.79 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=100 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 89.1% A/AB (n=92 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Voice disorders and voice production
  • Craniofacial and orofacial anomalies affecting communication and swallowing
  • Fluency disorders and their impact on communication
  • Interdisciplinary treatment teams including patients and caregivers

Skills

  • Evaluate and treat craniofacial, voice, and fluency disorders to improve communication and quality of life.
  • Understand head/neck development and voice production mechanisms relevant to communication dysfunction.

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season 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 · 0.14 GPA average error.

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Where this course fits relative to

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1280 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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Selected offering source records
CS&D 318 · Spring 2027

Voice, Craniofacial, and Fluency Disorders

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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