Welcome to the Department of Communication Sciences  graphic courtesy of Project Mosaic Vermont Summer Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) held in S. Burlington - June 23-27 The 11th Annual Summer Autism Institute was held June 23-27, 2008. The Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a one-week intensive session featuring international, national, regional and local experts in autism & other developmental disabilities. The next Summer Autism Institute will be in South Burlington on June 22-26. |
What CMSI Courses are offered for Summer 2008?
CMSI presents our 2008 Undergraduate Honors Day Students
The Department of Communication Sciences is pleased to present our three outstanding undergraduate students who received senior honor awards at the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Ceremony.
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Briana Horgan, from Salem, New Hampshire is receiving the Rodney Everhart Award for outstanding clinical promise. Briana is an Audiology Assistant at the E.M. Luse Center and Student Coordinator for the Peer Advising Program at Communication Sciences Department. Briana will continue her education by enrolling in a doctorate program in audiology at University of Massachusetts at Amherst in Fall 2009...more |
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Leah Grossman, of Arlington Heights, Illinois is receiving the Margaret Kyte Award for outstanding academic performance. Leah is President of the Speech and Hearing Club and UVM FeelGood, a non-profit student run deli which raises money to end world hunger and poverty. Leah plans to attend graduate school for speech-language pathology in Fall 2009. more.. |
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Hilary T. Roberts, of Burlington, Vermont, is receiving the Communications Sciences Departmental Award for her leadership, academic and professional promise. Hilary is a double major in English and Communication Sciences. She works as a writing tutor for the UVM learning Co-op. Hilary plans to attend the UVM graduate program in Communication Sciences in Fall 2008. Read More about our 2008 Honors Day Students! |
Welcome from the Chair of Communication Sciences - A welcome message and information update from the Chair of the Department, Patricia Prelock, Ph.D., CCC-SLP.
CMSI Announces The Distance Learning M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders (full story)
The CMSI Distance Learning M.S program features a hybrid format, consisting of some on-line courses, some interactive TV courses, and some courses requiring short-term residence on the UVM campus.
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What do they do at the E.M. Luse Center?
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The Eleanor M. Luse Center and students from the UVM Speech and Hearing Club welcomed 38 first time visitors from UVM and the Burlington Community for a free hearing screening held on Friday, April 11th, 2008...more |
The Eleanor M. Luse Center for Communication: Speech, Language, and Hearing (located in Pomeroy Hall on the University of Vermont campus), is a nonprofit organization which provides Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology services to both children and adults throughout Vermont, upstate New York and Northern New England. 
Learn more about the E.M. Luse Center! Download this Across The Fence Quicktime video presentation (high speed internet recommended.)
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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 Master's 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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