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| Master of Science in Speech Language |
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| Program of Study |
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| The objectives of the Master of Science program in speech-language pathology 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 Department also provides advanced graduate studies at the Ph.D. level for qualified students. |
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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. Studentswho 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 39 semester hours of speech-language pathology. Students must complete
- CODI 500 (Graduate Research and Diagnostics),
- CODI 508 (Aphasia),
- CODI 504 (Voice 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).
New students are admitted for the fall semester but may choose to begin courses in the preceding summer term. Applications should be completed by April 15 and thereafter are handled on a rolling basis until vacancies are filled. |
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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 39 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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| 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.
For application forms
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Departmental Statistics:
Employment Rate in Profession
| Academic Year |
% |
| 2007 |
100 |
| 2006 |
100 |
| 2005 |
100 |
| 3-year average |
100 |
Praxis Pass Rate
| Period |
# of students
taking exam
|
# of students
failed exam |
pass rate
(%) |
| 2007 |
15 |
2 |
87 |
| 2006 |
25 |
5 |
80 |
| 2005 |
12 |
1 |
92 |
3 year
average |
17 |
3 |
86 |
Program Completion Rates
| Period |
# completed program
(within expected time frame) |
# completed program
(later than expected time frame) |
# not completing |
| 2007 |
18 |
1 |
0 |
| 2006 |
18 |
1 |
0 |
| 2005 |
23 |
1 |
0 |
| 3 year average |
20 |
1 |
0 |
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