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2015-2016 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Communication Sciences & Disorders (Graduate Program)


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Program Overview

The Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders is nationally recognized for its faculty’s research in a number of areas including: fluency, voice, and swallowing disorders in children and adults; language development and impairment in children learning one or more languages or one or more dialects; language and literacy interventions for children; and motor speech and cognitive-communicative disorders in adults with acquired neurologic diseases and disorders. Within their particular area of expertise, faculty members study the nature and cause of clinical conditions, design and evaluate assessment tools and treatments, and investigate treatment efficacy.

PhD program graduates are in high demand by university faculties across the country and by federal and state health and education agencies seeking well-trained scholars to help guide policy development, service implementation, and program evaluation. Master’s graduates are eligible for national certification as speech-language pathologists once they pass the national certification examination. Speech-language pathologists are in demand nationally.

Administration

Paul R. Hoffman, Chair
Janna B. Oetting, Graduate Coordinator
TELEPHONE 225-578-2545
FAX 225-578-2995
WEBSITE www.lsu.edu/comd

Admission

Applications and supporting materials for all graduate study must be submitted through the online application site for the LSU Graduate School. Official transcripts, official test scores, and other materials that come from third-party sources must be mailed to: Graduate Student Services, 114 West David Boyd Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. These paper documents are stored electronically and departments have access to all materials submitted by and/or on behalf of a student applying to graduate study.

Applications for admission are received and evaluated by the department within a month of completion of all required materials. Applicants must adhere to the application deadlines established by the Graduate School.

Students seeking admission must submit satisfactory credentials from previous study, acceptable GRE scores, and three letters of recommendation. International students whose native language is not English must also submit an acceptable TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE score.

Financial Assistance

Financial assistance is available to some students. Support may be available through the student’s home department or other units in the form of research or teaching assistantships. A student should contact his or her home department for more information on available assistantship positions. To ensure consideration for financial aid, all application materials should be submitted in accordance with deadlines (Departmental deadline: February 1) established by the LSU Graduate School.

Graduate Faculty

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Hugh W. Buckingham (EM)
Geoff Coalson (6A) • Fluency disorders
Neila Donovan (M) • Evidence-based assessment and treatment design for adults with acquired neurologic diseases and disorders
Shannon Leilani Farho (3P) • Child language and speech sound disorders
Jeanne H. Fisher (3P) • Stroke (aphasia) and neuromotor speech disorders, fluency
Todd Gibson (6A) • Bilingual language development and disorders, interactions between language and cognition, lexical access
Courtney King Gonsoulin (3P) • Pediatric feeding and language
Rebecca H. Gouvier (3P) • School age language disorders, accent modification
Paul R. Hoffman (M) • Intervention for children’s speech sound
Wendy Abshire Jumonville (3P) • Newborn hearing screening, pediatric audiology, central auditory processing disorders
Yunjung Kim (M) • Speech acoustics, motor speech disorders, cross-linguistic perspectives on disordered speech
Melda Kunduk (M) • Voice disorders (dysphonia), swallowing disorders (dysphagia), total laryngectomy, paradoxical vocal cord dysfunction, laryngeal high-speed endoscopy, laryngeal videostroboscopy
Melissa Tallo Lalande (3P) • Voice and swallowing disorders
Sara Green Mele (3P) • Traumatic brain injury, cognitive-linguistic deficits following cumulative concussions
Janet Norris (M) • Child language and literacy intervention
Janna Oetting (M) • Child language development and disorders, English dialect diversity, child language assessment

Programs

    Doctor of PhilosophyMaster of Arts

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