The Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University is very fortunate to be located in a large, diverse metropolitan area. Not only do our students have the opportunity to work with people who have unique and varied clinical disorders, but they are also able to interact with a very diverse multicultural population (which is also reflected in our student body composition). Our new state-of-the-art Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic provides essential support for students' applied learning experiences.

Undergraduate Practicum

Students who graduate from the program with a bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology and audiology gain practical experience by observing therapy at a variety of locations. These experiences allow students to develop their clinical skills by exposing them to a range of communicative disorders and offer students an opportunity to develop insight into communicative disorders and remediation. This insight can help students be successful in graduate school.

Graduate Practicum

Students who graduate from the program with a master's degree in Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University will complete a program of study that includes supervised direct client/patient contact sufficient in breadth and depth to demonstrate appropriate diagnostic, intervention, interaction and personal quality skills to lead toward ASHA licensure.  Graduate students will have experience with a variety of client/patient populations with both children and adults with a range of communicative and swallowing disorders and differences.  Students will complete a minimum of one semester of on-campus evaluation, one semester of on-campus treatment, one semester in an off-campus pediatric setting and one semester in an off-campus adult setting, all of which are on the graduate level. Some students will do a third off-campus site. A lab fee of $100 is charged for each on-campus practicum.

On-Campus Practicum

NYU's on-campus, state-of-the-art Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic provides on-site, professionally supervised training for your first practicum. Through videotaped sessions, students learn to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services to infants, toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults with various disorders of speech, language, and hearing. The Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic provides the on-site training where master's level students perform their first practicum. Professional supervisors provide continuous, ongoing direct supervision of the assessment and intervention activities in the clinic. Each evaluation and therapy session is digitally recorded so that the session can be reviewed by clinic students, supervisors, faculty, and clients. Students have ongoing access to supervisor consultation. Students have an opportunity to observe or provide evaluations and treatment to patients with a variety of communicative disorders including:

• delayed language development
• disordered language
• aphasia
• articulation disorders
• dysarthria
• voice disorders
• stuttering
• prominent foreign accents
• hearing impairment
• pragmatic deficits
• Alternative and Augmentative Communication

Off-Campus Practicum

Students continue their clinical education off campus, acquiring supervised hands-on diagnostic and treatment experience in a wide range of communications disorders, working with children and adults in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, schools, private practice clinics, and adult day-treatment facilities.  New York University maintains numerous off-campus practicum sites in the metropolitan New York City area.  The variety of these sites ensures that our graduate students are exposed to a wide range of communicative and swallowing differences and disorders. Recent placements have included the world-renowned Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Village Nursing Home, the Kennedy Child Study Center, and the Manhattan Center for Early Learning. With the concept of multiculturalism both accepted and upheld on a schoolwide basis, the faculty of this department provides students with knowledge of cultural diversity and other urban issues in its content design. The on-campus and off-campus sites used by our graduate students reflect the multicultural nature of New York City.

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