Communication Sciences and Disorders

Undergraduate major: speech and hearing science (BA)

Undergraduate minor: communication sciences and disorders

Graduate degrees: MA in speech pathology and audiology; AuD; PhD in speech and hearing science

Graduate certificate: multilingualism and culturally responsive practice in SLP

Faculty: https://csd.uiowa.edu/people

Website: https://csd.uiowa.edu

The courses and degree programs of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders are designed to meet the needs of students preparing for careers in clinical service, college and university teaching, and research concerned with speech, language and/or hearing processes and disorders. The department also offers courses for students with vocational and professional goals in other fields—for example, engineering, psychology, education, speech, theatre arts, dentistry, and medicine—whose preparation may be enriched by the study of speech and hearing processes and their disorders.

Student in front of a poster board accenting stuttering.

Advanced degree holders in communication sciences and disorders provide clinical services for people with speech, hearing, or language problems in hospitals, community clinics, rehabilitation facilities, elementary and secondary schools, and private practice. They teach in colleges and universities and conduct research in laboratories concerned with communication processes and disorders.