Speech-Language Sciences: Description

Speech-Language Sciences at UNC prepares students for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of speech and language disorders. Career opportunities include positions in public schools, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, private practices, and practices associated with a range of physicians including otolaryngology, neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and pediatrics. UNC offers an undergraduate pre-professional major in Speech-Language Sciences, a professional certifying master's degree program, and a master's degree program that does not lead to certification.

The certifying master's degree program is fully accredited and provides excellent academic, research, and clinical preparation. Areas emphasized include:

• The science of communication
• Diagnosis and management of developmental articulation, language, and stuttering
• Acquired voice disorder>
• Dysphagia
• Psychiatric disorders and neurologic disorders including aphasia, apraxia, post head injury disorders, and dementia.

This program offers extensive supervised clinical experience through the well-equipped UNC Speech-Language Sciences and Audiology Clinics and ancillary clinics in Colorado. The M.A. program leading to certification is accredited by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).