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The
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) is
a unit of the College of Liberal Arts. Through the Graduate
School, it offers programs of study in speech and language
pathology, audiology, speech and hearing science, and
linguistics. Graduate study and research leading to
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are pursued in areas such
as speech and language pathology, diagnostic and rehabilitative
audiology, speech and language acquisition, linguistics,
augmentative and alternative communication, speech and
hearing physiology, experimental phonetics, psychoacoustics,
bioacoustics, and neuro-science. As clinicians and behavioral
scientists, students study the receptive and productive
aspects of normal and pathological communication. Specific
attention is given to the auditory, respiratory, phonatory,
and articulatory processes, as well as the perceptual,
cognitive, and linguistic processes associated with
communication. Flexibility in course work is valued
and includes collaborative study with other universities
through the Committee on Institutional Co-operations
Traveling Scholar Program and at various off-campus
sites. Graduate programs are highly individualized.
Each student is guided by a major professor and an advisory
committee. Each program is designed to balance formal
graduate instruction, seminars, research, and/or clinical
training in such a way that the student's career objectives
may be realized. The academic program holds accreditation
by the Council on Academic Accreditation of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association for both Audiology
and Speech-Language Pathology.
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