Independent study for undergraduate or master's level graduate students with an interest in a specific problem or issue in communication disorders. May be repeated for a maximun of 6 credits.

Experience with children and adults in the assessment and management of communication and swallowing disorders. Lecture, one hour; practicum, four hours per week. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

Supervised clinical experience in the evaluation and management of children and adults. Up to 40 laboratory hours per week (at site all day). May be repeated up to 36 hours.

Supervised clinical experience in the evaluation and management of children and adults. Up to 40 laboratory hours per week (at site all day). May be repeated up to 36 hours.

A comprehensive course in phonological theory, assessment, and treatment. Advanced principles of diagnosis and remediation for patients across the age span and from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Students will gain an in depth understanding of voice disorders including normal anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pathology, etiological correlates, and evaluation and management techniques for a wide range of voice disorders including alaryngeal voice.

Assessment and management of adults and children with low incidence communication disorders including disorders of fluency, craniofacial anomalies and tracheostomy. Topics may vary depending on current trends in the discipline.

This course will allow students to develop basic biological, social, clinical, and theoretical understandings of acquired cognitive- communication disorders. Normal and non-normal social-cognitive development and aging will introduce the content. This course will cover the role of the speech-language pathologist in the assessment and treatment of patient populations with cognitive-communication disorders while reviewing the neuroanatomy of cognition and communication processes.

This course addresses professional issues in speech-language pathology as they relate to various employment settings including public school, healthcare, and private practice. Topics will include professional ethics, cultural competence, professional practice documents, service delivery models, billing and coding, job exploration, resumes, interviews, credentialing, legal considerations, and professional advocacy. Content will be in accordance with the American Speech- Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Scope of Practice, Code of Ethics and guidelines for credentialing.

Designed to prepare graduate students in speech-language pathology to analyze, identify, and manage adult disorders of swallowing. This course includes a review of the anatomy and physiology of normal swallowing; the nature and characteristics of swallowing disorders; methods of evaluation and management/ treatment of swallowing disorders in adults. Consideration is given to medical conditions such as aspiration pneumonia, tracheostomy, and other complicating factors associated with swallowing disorders.