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 3 tenure-track faculty, 5 lecturers, 6 clinical faculty, and 4 staff. Additionally, two of our 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 graduate program and the Eleanor M. Luse Center for Communication: Speech, Language, and Hearing.
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CMSI Graduate Program joins Central Application Service. Beginning this fall, applicants seeking admission to the Graduate Program in Communication Sciences will submit applications to... more..
What do they do at the The Luse Center? Learn about the Speech, Language and Hearing Services provided at the E.M. Luse Center (Video) (49 MB) (Quicktime) or choose Streaming Video
What Academic Programs does the Department offer?
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 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, shares quarters with the Department and is a primary practicum site for our graduate students. In addition, the Department is 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).
The Department has an average of 100 undergraduate students and 30 graduate students who are engaged in class work, clinical experience. and research. 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, The Luse Center Clinic serves over 500 clients a year with speech, language and hearing problems. Learn more about the Clinic..
Student Concern Policy. The Department provides many avenues available for students to discuss concerns or provide suggestions about different aspects of the CMSI undergraduate or graduate program. Student Concern Policy...
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Questions? Please email: communication.sciences@uvm.edu
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