Admission and Prerequisites
In addition to the general application and admission requirements from the Graduate School, all applicants are required to submit:
· Responses to the Personal Prompt Questions designed by the department and available from the Graduate School.
· The Graduate School requirement for letters of recommendation applies to ALL students, including graduates from the UL Lafayette CODI undergraduate program. These recommendations take the form of a completed rating scale available from the Graduate School.
· Submission of the GRE is not required, but encouraged. If submitted, GRE scores must be sent directly from the test administrator to the Graduate School.
Students admitted to the program are expected to have basic foundational knowledge which is typically obtained in an undergraduate degree in Communicative Disorders or related fields of study. Specific prerequisite courses include the following:
- a course in phonetics
- a course in normal speech and language development
- a course in the anatomy and physiology of the speech and hearing mechanism
- a course in basic speech science
- an introductory course in audiology
- a course in aural habilitation
- a course in language disorders (Recommended. Though other disorder area courses may be substituted.)
- a course in speech sound disorders (Recommended. Though other disorder area courses may be substituted.)
- a course in clinical methods/observation and
- a course in applied statistics
In addition to the prerequisite requirements above, applicants should have a course in a biological science, a course in chemistry or physics, and a course in a behavioral science.
Failure to meet all of the above prerequisites shall not be reason to be denied admission; however, a student is expected to have completed a majority of the courses prior to admission. A student may not be advanced to candidacy prior to satisfying any deficiencies.
Clinical Requirements (minimum 325 clock hours)
Students will be required to register for a clinical course during each semester of study. Clinical courses are not applicable to the 44 credit hours of course work required for the master’s degree. Students must complete a minimum of 325 clock hours of clinical practicum at the graduate level. The actual number of clock hours of practicum performed at the graduate level will be determined by the number of hours the student had at the undergraduate level and the number of hours needed to complete the practicum distribution required for the certification being sought. Undergraduate clock hours will be integrated into total clock hours earned for ASHA certification and state licensure at the discretion of the Clinic Committee.
