MED, Communication Sciences & Disorders

Degree Program Summary:

The Communication Sciences and Disorders master’s programs prepare students to be evidence-based, client-centered, outcomes-focused speech-language pathologists. The M.Ed. program integrates coursework, on-campus clinical practicum, and off-campus clinical internships.

Our faculty have research, clinical, and community collaboration expertise across the field of communication sciences and disorders. You will benefit from this expertise through high quality evidence-based instruction, clinical opportunities, research endeavors, and outreach to the community.

The MEd in Communication Sciences and Disorders includes coursework across the lifespan in:

• Diagnostics, clinical methods, and application of research in speech-language pathology
• Speech sound disorders, fluency, voice, and resonance
• Language and literacy assessment and intervention
• Dysphagia
• Acquired speech, language, and cognitive disorders
• Multicultural issues and interprofessional practice
• Augmentative and alternative communication
• This program is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation of the American Speech-Language Hearing
• Association and approved by the Georgia Department of Education.

The program begins in July during UGA’s “Short Session II.” Courses and clinical practicum experiences use a cohort model and are required every semester. You typically graduate in May of your second year in the program. You are eligible to apply to the CMSD/SLP master’s program if you have completed a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences and disorders, speech and hearing sciences, speech-language pathology, or the equivalent, or if you are on track to complete such a degree by the end of the current academic year. If your bachelor’s degree was in another area, you are eligible to apply if you have completed the prerequisite coursework in speech, hearing, and language sciences.