Audiology, speech-language pathology, deaf education and interpreting are concerned with many issues related to speech, hearing, and language. Professionals in these fields are devoted to providing diagnostic, rehabilitative, and educational services to children and adults with communicative challenges.

The department offers course work towards the completion of a degree with an emphasis in Communicative Disorders (Audiology or Speech Language Pathology) and Deaf Studies (ASL Instruction, Deaf Education, or Sign Language Interpreting).

Interesting Classes You Might Take

• Introduction to Communicative Disorders
• Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Hearing Mechanisms
• Education of Exceptional Children
• Treatment Procedures in Communicative Disorders
• American Sign Language courses
• Deaf Literature
• Deaf Culture

What You Can Learn

• About deaf children in general, parent education, and various educational programs and services for deaf children and their parents.
• Signing skills and different models/systems of communication used with deaf and hard-of-hearing students, adolescents, and adults.
• Physiological acoustics, psychoacoustics, acoustic phonetics, and perception of speech.
• American Sign Language, its cultural/historical background, the role it plays in the deaf community, and its growing influence in American mainstream society.
• Assessment and treatment procedures for individuals with communicative disorders in a variety of educational and medical settings.