
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

The Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences offers a research-based doctoral education to gain understanding of the major issues of human communication and its disorders.
Learn more about the ProgramDegree Offered
Ph.D. in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Full-time
Admissions Deadlines
January 1 (fall enrollment)
(No spring enrollment)
The Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences prepares scholars and researchers with a capacity to develop broad theoretical and conceptual frameworks to strengthen their understanding of the major issues of human communication and its disorders. We offer our students a strong and multifaceted research-based doctoral education where they will gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to continue learning and growing throughout their professional lives.
Faculty members from CUNY’s senior colleges and the Graduate Center conduct research on varied aspects of speech, language, and hearing processes and disorders. One common theme across projects and laboratories is bilingualism and cross-linguistic studies across the lifespan in typical and clinical populations.
Since its inception in 1965, the program has achieved a reputation for excellence in doctoral program, and has graduated many individuals who have assumed positions of leadership and have contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge in the processes and disorders of human communication.
Employment Rates of the Alumni of the Ph.D. Program in SLHS
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We conduct a variety of scientific experiments about speech production, speech perception, language processing, and hearing processing for both children and adults.
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Our Research
What research do we do at the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences PhD Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York? How are the other students? What kind of instruments and machines do we use? What is the atmosphere in the program? Watch this video to find out!
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Student Experiences
When asked to write three words that best describe their experience at the Graduate Center, our program’s alumni listed the following words. The result is portrayed here as a word cloud.
Student TestimonialsRecent News
May 16, 2022
Advice for the Tenure Track in Speech Sciences
Alumna Taryn Malcolm, a professor at Mercy College, shares what helped her stand out.
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- Alumni News
Apr 11, 2022
Science Alumni Spotlight: Jet Vonk
Vonk, a specialist in dementia and aging, is taking on a faculty position at the University of California San Francisco and realizing her career ambitions.
- Alumni News
Dec 25, 2021
HOW TO REACH YOUR ACADEMIC NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS: GET YOUR RESEARCH MOVING, PUBLISH YOUR DISSERTATION, FIND A TENURE-TRACK JOB, AND LAND A PROMOTION
As we look forward to a new year, Graduate Center scholars share the lessons they have learned to help you reach your academic goals in...
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Nov 9, 2021
'One Hell of a Learning Experience': How COVID Nearly Upended a Student’s Dissertation Research
By Bonnie Eissner Graduate Center Ph.D. candidate Iris Strangmann (Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences) was preparing to collect data for her dissertation on how bilingual people switch between...
- Student News