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Saint Louis University's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders offers a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in speech-language pathology. The program is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). It is a two-year, six-semester program which starts in the summer semester. The program is designed to prepare professionals to provide evidence-based high-quality services to persons with communication and swallowing disorders. A focus of the program is to develop clinicians who are prepared to serve culturally and linguistically diverse populations across the life span.

Students must have a bachelor's degree in communication sciences and disorders or speech-language pathology to apply to the graduate program. Students interested in the communication sciences and disorders graduate degree that have a bachelor's degree in a different discipline can complete the SLU CSD Leveling Option before applying.

SLU's Master of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders is a two-year graduate program with a typical class size of 30 to 40 students. Over the past three years, the program’s graduation rate is 97%, while the Praxis pass rate and the employment rate of the graduating class is 99%. Graduate students will complete a clinical practicum in each term; the program is six semesters, including two summers, and students begin the program in the summer semester.

Curriculum Overview

SLU's program is six semesters, including two summers. Students begin in the summer.

All graduate students must complete 46 credits, including a required clinical practicum each term. Research students will also complete a thesis for six elective credits.

Students must enroll in five terms (semester or summer) of zero-credit clinical practicum during their study. Additionally, six credits of off-campus clinical practice are completed during the last semester of study.

Other required courses include:

• Experimental Design
• Phonological Development and Disorders
• Assessment/Management of Social Communication Disorders
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication
• Language I and II
• Fluency Disorders
• Dysphagia
• Voice Disorders
• Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies
• Neurogenic Communication Disorders in Adults
• Motor Speech Disorders
• Professional Issues in Speech-Language Pathology
• Cognitive Communication Disorders