Lund, Sweden: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

The Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Summer Program offers post-baccalaureate and masters level students in speech-language pathology and postmasters speech-language pathologists an opportunity to earn six graduate credits or sixty New York State Continuing Education Units while living and studying in Sweden. Sweden is a country known for its state-of-the-art approaches to speech science and speech disorder remediation. Housed in the Department of Logopedics and Phoniatrics of Lund University in Lund Sweden, the program combines lectures with directed enrichment activities.

The Department of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, located within the university's Medical School, provides an ideal setting for the academic programs focus on motor speech disorders and swallowing disorders. With this summer's emphasis on organically caused speech-language disorders, the program uses the available expertise of Lund University neurologists, otolaryngologists, radiologists and speech pathologists to create a setting in which course content, diagnostic and remediation procedures are tightly integrated. In addition, guest lectures from Malmo hospital. Carolinska Institute in Stockhohn, or Gotenberg University address the group. Students also learn about current research projects in an international environment that supports both basic as well as applied research.

All participants must take both courses and participate in required field trips to hospitals or rehabilitation centers. Each course meets for seven and one-half hours per week for five weeks, leaving Fridays free for field trips and enrichment activities.

If you are interested in participating in the summer abroad program, please contact Associate Professor Celia Stewart, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, 665 Broadway, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10012; 212 998 5230.