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Fees and Reimbursement in 2012 There are countless challenges in the education of speech-language pathologists and audiologists. Because clinical training is such an integral part of the graduate programs for our professions, the operation of the university speech and hearing clinic is of paramount importance. Clinical opportunities must match the...
The term culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) encompasses a diverse set of groups and individuals. Given the rapid increase in numbers of individuals from CLD populations, it is critical that the research base in communication sciences and disorders keep pace with the growth in that population. Clearly, it has not. I often...
Magnificent Era of Synchronicity The surge in global synergies over the past few years has increased the visibility of our field with globally focused research, education, professional opportunities, and service presentations at professional conferences for numerous Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD)-related organizations. Student demand for global health experiences is growing,...
Just as the number of students with disabilities enrolled in higher education is on the rise nationally, so too is the number of students with disabilities who are drawn to speech-language pathology or audiology as a major. The legal definition for “person with a disability” is very broad, including students...
The cumulative 10-year completion rate for PhD students averages less than 50% in the United States (Council of Graduate Schools, 2008). Given the high level of personal and institutional investment required to support students for even 1 year in a PhD program, it is incumbent on graduate programs to lower...
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...
Over the past 12 years, the speech-language pathology program at Teachers College Columbia University (TC) has become known for its bilingual/multicultural program focus. To strengthen the program, the authors sought to offer an international experience incorporating clinical experiences with a strong academic seminar in a Spanish-speaking country. After an exploratory...
Research is necessary for our discipline—not only to advance basic understanding, but also to ensure the highest quality of clinical services. Indeed, it is fair to say that research is essential for our discipline to survive: We must continue to unravel the mysteries of human communication, to understand how and...
Ours is a maddening and dazzling age of communication revolution; a time of wholesale, unceasing transformations in the ways that we share, receive, and store information; an era of profound, still-unfolding changes in how we as professionals, friends, and family connect and keep in touch with one other. Was it...
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...
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