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| Master of Science in Speech Language |
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| Program of Study |
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| The Master of Science program in speech-language
pathology is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation
in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. The goals of the
program are to provide students with opportunities for advanced
study and specialization in communicative disorders, to instruct
them in methods of
independent investigation, to provide a means by which they
may satisfy the academic requirements for the Certificate of
Clinical Competence of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and to provide a program
in which students may acquire professional competencies in
speech-language pathology. The master's program is a two year
program, requiring a minimum of six (6) semesters of full-time
study. Admission to the program is on a yearly basis and, beginning
in 2010, new students will be required to begin the master's
program in June of the year of admission. Admissions decisions
are made during the spring semester. The deadline for applications
is February
15. |
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| Applying to the Master’s Degree Program |
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Students applying to the master’s degree in speech-language
pathology are expected to have writing and speaking abilities acceptable
for purposes of employment as speech and language clinicians. Students
who do not possess these skills will be expected to pursue remedial work.
Deadline for applications
to the master's program is February 15.
To apply to the program go to http://gradschool.louisiana.edu and
select online application. A paper application can be obtained from the graduate
school only for very special situations on an as needed basis. Students unable
to register online will need to contact the graduate school directly.
For more information contact:
John A. Tetnowski, Ph.D.,
Coordinator of the Master’s Program
Department of Communicative Disorders
P.O. Box 43170
Lafayette LA 70504-3170 tetnowski@louisiana.edu
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| Requirements for Admission |
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To
qualify for admission to the master’s
program, applicants must submit along with a completed application:
- transcripts showing an overall undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.75, or an overall GPA of at least 3.00 in the last 60 semester hours;
- evidence of satisfactory scores on the Graduate Records Examination — verbal, quantitative, and analytical subsections; and
- three letters of recommendation from persons familiar with the applicant’s ability to do graduate work.
Letters of recommendation are waived for graduates of UL Lafayette
Department of Communicative Disorders who meet the other requirements
for admission. As a matter of policy, qualified minority students
are especially encouraged to apply. Any applicant may be admitted
on a conditional basis at the discretion of the Department with
concurrence of the Graduate School. Students admitted on a conditional
basis, however, must satisfy the requirements for regular admission
within a semester. Students who do not satisfy requirements may
be denied admission.
Besides the above requirements, the applicant must have completed the following undergraduate courses (or their equivalents). At least one course of three semester hours must be completed in each of the following areas prior to admission to the graduate program:
- normal speech and language development,
- anatomy and physiology of the speech and hearing mechanism,
- neuroanatomy and physiology,
- communication science,
- introduction to audiology,
- aural rehabilitation,
- phonetics,
- articulation disorders,
- language disorders,
- clinical methods/observation, and
- statistics.
Although undergraduates and nondegree seeking graduate students may be permitted to take prerequisite courses, success in one or all of those prerequisite courses does not in any way guarantee admission to the highly competitive graduate program. Fulfillment of one or all of the published departmental prerequisites does not justify the presumption that the student will be admitted to the Master’s program. To be accepted, the applicant must meet all requirements and in addition must be accepted by the Department and the Graduate School. |
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| Course Requirements |
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To earn the Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology the
student must complete 43 semester hours of speech-language pathology.
Students must complete
the following required courses, 4 elective courses and the Capstone Seminar.
- CODI 500 (Graduate Research and Diagnostics),
- CODI 504 (Voice Disorders),
- CODI 508 (Aphasia),
- CODI 523 (Speech Perception and Production Disorders)
- CODI 524 (Communication Science),
- CODI 526 (Child Language Disorders),
- CODI 531 (Medical Speech Pathology)
- CODI 535 (AAC),
- CODI 540 (Fluency Disorders) and
- CODI 550 (Clinical Research).
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| Clinical Requirements |
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| Masters students are required to register for clinical practicum every
semester of study. Clinical courses are not applicable to the
43 hours required for the master’s degree. Students must complete
a minimum of 325 clock hours of clinical practicum at the graduate
level. The actual number
of clock hours of practicum performed at the graduate level
will be determined by the number of hours the student had at
the undergraduate level and the
number of hours needed to complete the practicum distribution
required for certification. |
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| Comprehensive Examination Requirement |
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| All students must pass the CODI Capstone Seminar which is the Comprehensive Examination process for this Master’s degree program. This course is offered once a year in the spring semester. The Capstone is not a regular course but an examination process. The grade assigned there cannot be appealed. |
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