Welcome from the Chair of the Department, Patricia Prelock, Ph.D., CCC-SLP.
CMSI Celebrates 2009 Undergraduate Honors Day Students
The Department of Communication Sciences is pleased to profile
three outstanding undergraduate students who received senior honor
awards at the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Ceremony in May 2009. Read more about the undergraduate major in Communication Sciences...
View CMSI Fall 2009 Course List
CMSI Introduces Linguistics Minor - In Fall 2008, the Department of Communication Sciences began enrolling students in the linguistics minor. Students choose 18 courses across academic departments to complete the minor, including several core courses from CMSI. more info...
The12th Annual 2009 Summer Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) was held on June 22-26, 2009 in South Burlington. The Institute is sponsored by the The Autism Society of Vermont (ASVT) in collaboration with the UVM Department of Communication Sciences and the Vermont Department of Education.
What do they do at the E.M. Luse Center for Communication: Speech, Language and Hearing?
View a video about the E.M. Luse Center ( Quicktime format)
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About The Department of Communication Sciences
The Department of Communication Sciences (CMSI) plays a key role in tying liberal arts to health and educational issues. We are the only program in the state of Vermont that prepares students to become speech-language pathologists (SLPs). The Department is housed in a recently renovated building with faculty research labs and state of the art clinical facilities. The Department has established both an undergraduate and graduate degree program. It is comprised of 5 tenure-track faculty, 2 lecturers, 4 clinical faculty, and 4 staff. Additionally, two of our tenure track faculty members hold appointments in the University’s interdisciplinary Neuroscience Graduate Program, providing unique expertise in the areas of human disease and disorders.
Unique to our Department is the degree of cooperative work undertaken by students and faculty in the study and practice of basic and clinical sciences and in their application to real people in need of help with communication, the most human of all behaviors. The tight integration of faculty philosophies and responsibilities facilitates the attainment of positive research, teaching, and service outcomes within the undergraduate major, the Master’s degree program and the Eleanor M. Luse Center for Communication: Speech, Language, and Hearing. On average, the Department has about 100 undergraduate students and 30 graduate students who are engaged in class work, clinical experiences and research opportunities. As an example of our students’ research accomplishments, in 2006 we had 8 students who presented their research at the ASHA Convention in Miami, Florida. Three students submitted their research for publication and one student had her research accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. In addition, our clinic serves over 500 clients a year with speech, language and hearing problems.
The undergraduate program in CMSI educates students in normal communication processes. Special emphasis is placed on linguistics and the scientific study of speech, language, and hearing. Many of our introductory courses as well as our advanced linguistics courses have a sizeable number of students from other majors, such as Education, English and Psychology.
CMSI also offers a masters degree program that is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) through the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). The Eleanor M. Luse Center for Communication: Speech, Language, and Hearing, which shares quarters with the Department and is a primary practicum site for our graduate students. In addition, we are part of the unit faculty at the University of Vermont receiving accreditation for training professional educators at the initial preparation level through the National Council of Accreditation for Teacher Education (NCATE) and the Vermont Results Oriented Program Assessment (ROPA).
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Concern Policy
Explanation of the method of addressing Student Concerns
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Questions? Please email: communication.sciences@uvm.edu
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