Learning Goals
Students completing a Ph.D. in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences can expect the following:
- Demonstrate mastery of the research literature (including critical reading & thinking) in one or more areas of specialization from one or more areas of the program: Speech, Language, or Hearing Sciences. These areas, will include, but not be limited to:
- First and Second Language Acquisition
- Multilingual Speech Language Development and Disorders
- Cross‐linguistic Speech and Language Development and Disorders
- Neurobiology of Language Development and Developmental Language Disorders
- Neurobiology of Adult Language Disorders and Normal Aging
- Language Processing in Children and Adults (Developmental Psycholinguistics)
- Dyslexia in Children and Adults
- Childhood Language Disorders
- Production and Perception of Speech
- Neurophysiology of Hearing
- Adult Hearing
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Demonstrate competence in research design and statistics.
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Demonstrate knowledge of research ethics.
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Demonstrate an understanding of Instrumentation and software for research and implement specific instrumentation tools in their research.
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Demonstrate the ability to formulate and write grant proposals.
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Demonstrate appropriate oral presentation skills for the presentation of research reviews and new research as well as for teaching and for answering focused questions from different audiences.
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Demonstrate basic professional writing skills that include the ability to write an original, synthesized and critical review of the literature in a given area of scholarship.
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Demonstrate the ability to write scholarly articles for publication and an understanding of the publication process in the students’ areas of specialization.