Teaching, Learning, and Research Hub
To paraphrase Charles Dickens (1859), for today’s academic environment, it seems both the best of times and the worst of times. Many academic programs in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) are now finding that demands for increasing productivity and excellent graduates are often coupled with diminishing resources with which to...
Question What makes the University of Pittsburgh clinical training model different than most other CSD clinical programs? Answer First, it is probably important to provide some background on our department and the environment in which we are situated. The University of Pittsburgh Communication Science and Disorders (CSD) department is housed...
The demand for professionals in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) may compel program directors to consider an expansion of their graduate programs to increase student capacity. Determining feasibility for increasing student capacity requires careful consideration. Three variables consistently emerge in the literature concerning graduate program advancement and development: mission, quality,...
In 2004, ASHA, via its then Focused Initiative on the PhD Shortage, established a grant competition for innovative models of PhD education in communication sciences and disorders (CSD). The faculty at the University of Cincinnati (UC) were willing to take the challenge and were awarded the $50,000 grant. We initiated...
Securing adequate extern sites, supervisors and preceptors with adequate skills and knowledge in clinical education; adequately assessing student performance in clinical settings, enabling academic and clinical faculty in university programs to better support student learning; ensuring that students receive exposure and training across an ever expanding scope of practice and...
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