

Our 48-credit program of study includes supervised clinical experiences sufficient in breadth and depth to help you gain the necessary skills for culturally responsive evaluation, intervention, and interaction for entry into professional practice as a speech-language pathologist.
If you are bilingual or multilingual and you wish to apply for your Bilingual Extension in New York State, you also have the option of selecting the Bilingual Extension Track, which provides supplemental training focused on linguistically responsive and sustaining methods of assessment and instruction for children ages 3–21 years who communicate in more than one language.
For students who do not have a bachelor's in CSD or a related field, we offer foundation courses to provide basic knowledge prior to beginning graduate-level study. Many undergraduates come to our program from diverse academic backgrounds such as psychology, linguistics, theater, world language, and more.
Additional curricular opportunities include an honors thesis option for students interested in research and study abroad programming in Lund, Sweden, and Accra, Ghana.
Effective Fall 2022, students entering the MS in Communicative Sciences and Disorders and pursuing the Bilingual Extension Track who have already completed foundational courses will take 48 total credits of course work rather than 55 credits.
Our rigorous program of study centers culturally and linguistically responsive practices in order to teach you methods of prevention, assessment, and intervention for people with communication and swallowing disorders, as well as how to integrate research principles into evidence-based clinical practice.
A minimum of eight units are required; additional practicums may be necessary to complete the required clinical hours.
You will complete a supervised practicum that includes experience with individuals across the life span and from culturally/linguistically diverse backgrounds. The practicum will include experience with populations with various severities of communication and/or related disorders, differences, and disabilities.
We offer a number of elective courses to complement your Speech-Language Pathology interests; some examples include:
Starting in Fall 2022: For individuals who are bilingual (users of more than one spoken language) and who will practice with pediatric populations ages 3–21 years in New York State, the NYU CSD Bilingual Extension Track (BET) serves as the pathway to the New York State Bilingual Extension certificate. This track offers an opportunity to expand upon the culturally responsive and SLP discipline-specific content offered by the CSD core curriculum. To opt for the BET, students commit to registering for only one required elective. Learn more about the BET and gaining certification as a bilingual SLP.
Students who enter the MS degree must have completed a bachelor’s either with a major in communicative sciences and disorders or in another subject area. Students are required to master some basic knowledge and to complete specific courses prior to beginning graduate-level courses. All foundation courses are necessary for New York State licensure and American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) certification. These foundation courses do not carry graduate credit for the MS degree.
There are three ways to meet the foundation requirements for courses specific to the MS degree:
NYU’s graduate program will certify to ASHA that the requirements for clinical certification have been met. Thus, the faculty in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at NYU must determine that the foundation courses taken elsewhere are equivalent in breadth, depth, and rigor to courses at NYU. In addition, students must demonstrate that they have mastered the information in the required foundation courses by earning a grade of C or higher in all foundation courses taken at another university or they will be required to take the course again at NYU. Students must earn a C or better in all foundation courses taken at NYU or they will be required to take the course again.
Students are required to submit the appropriate documentation to the department to ensure that the content of their completed course work is sufficient in terms of breadth and depth. This includes a thorough review of the course syllabus. Students may also be asked to provide information pertaining to the course texts, exams, notes, and at times a one-to-one discussion, to demonstrate working knowledge of the information in a foundation course to determine course equivalency. Courses for which equivalence cannot be established must be taken as part of the graduate program.
Students must complete all foundation course work prior to entering the practicum sequence. Students may take foundation courses concurrently with some of the approved graduate-level courses. These will be aligned with curricular sequencing.
Any student who is missing some or all of the foundation courses must complete these in addition to the 48 credits required for the MS degree (see previous).
Note: Students must have a completed academic course in Linguistics or Science of Language as a prerequisite to the master's curriculum. The linguistic course may be taken at NYU, another college, or online, with the permission of a faculty member.
Due to the high number of interested applicants, our department is unable to review transcripts and approve foundation courses for prospective students. It is advised that students compare the course descriptions of previously taken courses in communicative sciences and disorders to the department’s foundation course descriptions, in order to determine if the content is an accurate match. In addition, students may utilize our Foundation Course Equivalent resource in order to determine some of the alternative course titles that we have accepted from outside universities.
Learn more about global study opportunities for students pursuing an MS in Communicative Sciences and Disorders in Lund, Sweden, and Accra, Ghana.
The master's thesis process provides an optional opportunity for you to work with a faculty mentor to develop and conduct original research.
In addition to the foundation courses listed above, all students must complete 12 combined units of course work in social/behavioral science, biological science, physical science, and statistics to be eligible for ASHA certification.
Students may have completed these requirements at another accredited college prior to entering the program, and need only to submit confirmation of an earned C or better grade (on graduate or undergraduate transcript) for credit. If the course content or earned grade was not sufficient, then students must complete these requirements prior to starting the practicum sequence. It is the policy of the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders that all students must earn credit hours for each of these courses. Continuing education units (CEUs) OR continuing education credits (CECs) will not be accepted.
The combination of biological science, physical science, statistics, and social/behavioral science must equate to a minimum of 12 credits. Research methodology courses in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) may not be used to satisfy the statistics requirement. Courses in biological and physical science specifically related to communication sciences and disorders (CSD) may not be applied for certification purposes to this category unless the course fulfills a university requirement in one of these areas. In addition to transcript credit, applicants may be required by their graduate program to provide further evidence of meeting this requirement.
The master's (MS) education program in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) at New York University is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
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