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deadline for fall admission is February 1. Entering master's students
with deficiencies in the major area of study or with a bachelor's
degree in another field of study must fulfill basic prerequisites
during the first year of graduate work. There are no specific
undergraduate courses required for admission to the Au.D. degree
program.
Admission to degree-granting programs is via application to the
respective faculty committees.
ASL 5406: Manual Communication with the Hearing Impaired
(1; max: 3) Overview of signing systems, including ASL, Signed
English, and Signing Exact English. Emphasis on signing skills most
useful to audiologist.
LAE 6505: Applied Preschool Language Disorders: Diagnosis
and Treatment(3) Seminar and practicum in diagnoses and
treatment of preschool children with language learning disabilities.
SPA 5051: Clinical Observation in Audiology (1) Prereq: for
beginning graduate students in audiology. Opportunity to observe
various phases of audiologic practice and to accumulate a minimum
of 15 hours of observation experience.
SPA 5102: Auditory Anatomy and Physiology (2) In-depth
coverage of anatomy and physiology of auditory system to support
understanding of auditory function in persons with healthy auditory
mechanisms and those with specific disorders.
SPA 5128: Speech Perception (2) Understanding speech
perception in hearing-impaired and/or aged listeners. Auditory and
cognitive hypotheses to explain speech-recognition deficits; and
clinical and theoretical intervention strategies to alleviate perceptual
deficits in these populations.
SPA 5204: Phonological Disorders (3) Advanced principles of
diagnosis and remediation.
SPA 5211: Voice Disorders (3) Advanced theory and techniques
of diagnosis and remediation.
SPA 5225: Principles of Speech Pathology: Stuttering (3)
Advanced theories and techniques of diagnosis and therapy.
SPA 5245: Communicative Disorders Related to Cleft Palate
(3) Prereq: SPA 5204, 5211, 5403. Lectures and laboratory study of
the "team approach" and interdisciplinary aspects of communicative
disorders in the cleft palate individual.
SPA 5304: Principles of Audiological Evaluation (3) Advanced
procedures in speech audiometry, masking, and audiogram
interpretation.
SPA 5315: Peripheral and Central Auditory Disorders (2)
Understanding (1) anatomy and physiology of peripheral and central
auditory mechanism, (2) etiology and pathology of peripheral and
central hearing loss, and (3) audiological and otologic
diagnosis/treatment of hearing loss.
SPA 5401: Speech Pathology Language Disorder (3) Advanced
theory and techniques of diagnosis and remediation of language
disorders in infants and preschoolers.