In this course you'll gain good preparation for careers in areas such as education, social work and research. During the course, you'll examine speech and language functions and how they're processed by the brain. You'll also look at how humans develop speech and language and how this process fails in some children, such as in autism and dyslexia. The foundation year of the programme provides people with non-standard entry qualifications a thorough and supportive academic preparation for successful degree level study in the Department of Human Communication Sciences (DHCS). It is carefully designed to build your confidence in your abilities, develop essential academic and study skills, and provide the subject specific knowledge essential for success.