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If you attended prior to 2007-2008 and require a copy of your curriculum, please contact the Registrar's Office at registrar@mghihp.edu.
Current Curriculum Plan - with Concentration in Voice Disorders
Total Core Required Credits: 64
(Core courses must be taken for letter grade.)
Total Elective Credits required: 8
Minimum credits required for graduation: 72
If students have already completed an undergraduate course in Aural Rehabilitation they must take 2 more credits of electives (10 instead of 8) to reach the total of 72 because they do not take CD 751 (Aural Rehabilitation).
Year 1 - Fall Term
| CD-732 | Speech Sound Disorders in Children | 3 |
| CD-743 | Spoken and Written Language Development and Disorders-Part A: Foundational Concepts and Assessment | 2 |
| CD-744 | Spoken and Written Language Development and Disorders-Part B: Language and Literacy Disorders in Early School Age | 2 |
| CD-745 | Spoken and Written Language Development and Disorders-Part C: Intervention for Language for Learning and Advanced Language | 2 |
| CD-760S | Seminar for Spoken Language Disorders Practicum | 0 |
| - | or | |
| CD-760W | Seminar for Written Language Disorders Practicum | 0 |
| CD-761 | SLLC Clinical Practicum I | 3 |
| HP-818 | IMPACT 1: Interprofessional Practice | 1 |
Year 1 - Spring Term
CH 837 Trachs and Vents is required. See other electives below.
| CD-722 | Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of Communication and Swallowing | 3 |
| CD-760S | Seminar for Spoken Language Disorders Practicum | 0 |
| - | or | |
| CD-760W | Seminar for Written Language Disorders Practicum | 0 |
| CD-762 | SLLC Clinical Practicum II | 3 |
| CD-839 | Aphasia in Adults: Assessment and Intervention | 3 |
| CH-721 | Foundations of Cognition | 2 |
| CH-837 | Tracheotomy and Ventilation Issues in a Medical Setting | 1 |
| HP-819 | IMPACT 2: Interprofessional Project | 1 |
Students planning on completing a thesis take CD-724 section 02 in their Spring semester of Year 1.
Year 1 - Summer Term
CD 735 Foundations of Medical Speech Pathology is required. See other electives below.
| CD-721 | Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech | 3 |
| CD-735 | Foundations of Medical Speech Pathology | 1 |
| CD-770 | Year 1 Clinical Outplacement Seminar | 0 |
| CD-828 | Teaching Language and Literacy to English Language Learners | 2 |
| CD-833 | Neuromotor Speech Disorders | 2 |
| CD-840 | Dysphagia in Adults & Children | 3 |
| - | Electives - As approved by academic advisor | |
The practicum committee will inform students about their external practicum course numbers. If students are placed in their first external practicum in the Summer of Year 1 they will register for CD-771 in the Summer, then CD-872 in the Fall or Spring of Year 2, and CD-873 in the Spring or Summer of Year 2.
Some students will not begin their first external practicum until the Fall of Year 2, in which case they will register for CD-871 then.
See Electives below.
Year 2 - Fall Term
| CD-832 | Voice Disorders | 3 |
| CD-841 | Fluency Disorders (Stuttering) | 2 |
| CD-843 | Acquired Cognitively Based Communication Disorders (Traumatic Brain Injury) | 2 |
| CD-870 | Year 2 Clinical Outplacement Seminar | 0 |
| CD-871 | Clinical Practicum III | 3 |
| CH-835 | Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) | 2 |
Year 2 - Spring Term
CD 834 Alaryngeal Speech is required. See other electives below.
| CD-724 | Evidenced-Based Practice and Research Methods for Speech Language Pathologists | 3 |
| CD-751 | Aural Rehabilitation: Treatment of Hearing Disorders | 3 |
| CD-834 | Alaryngeal Speech (Post-Laryngectomy) Seminar | 1 |
| CD-870 | Year 2 Clinical Outplacement Seminar | 0 |
| CD-872 | Clinical Practicum IV | 3 |
| HP-821 | IMPACT 3: Interprofessional Ethics | 1 |
| HP-999 | Interprof Sem - 2nd Year Spr | 0 |
| - | Electives - As approved by academic advisor | |
Students take CD751 only if they have NOT taken an Aural Rehab course prior to matriculation. Students take CD752, Hearing Skills Seminar in the Fall semester, if they have already taken Aural Rehabilitation prior to matriculation.
Students may take HP821 in either spring or summer semester, year two.
See Electives below
Year 2 - Summer Term
CD 861 Advanced Seminar Voice Disorders is required.
| CD-861 | Advanced Seminar in Voice Disorders | 2 |
| - | Electives - As approved by academic advisor | |
See other electives below.
A total of 15 credits of Clinical Practicum must be completed from the following courses:
| CD-761 | SLLC Clinical Practicum I | 3 |
| CD-762 | SLLC Clinical Practicum II | 3 |
| CD-871 | Clinical Practicum III | 3 |
| CD-872 | Clinical Practicum IV | 3 |
| CD-873 | Clinical Practicum V | 3 |
Other electives must be completed from the following courses:
Note - these are samples of elective course listings. Not all are offered each year.
| CD-735 | Foundations of Medical Speech Pathology | 1 |
| CD-824B | Diagnostic Methods and Clinical Processes in Reading and Writing Disorders II | 2 |
| CD-825 | Reading and Writing in the Schools | 2 |
| CD-826 | Leading Literacy Change | 1 |
| CD-827 | Teaching Narrative and Expository Literacy | 2 |
| CD-834 | Alaryngeal Speech (Post-Laryngectomy) Seminar | 1 |
| CD-836 | Genetics in Communication Disorders | 1-2 |
| CD-855 | Acquired Reading and Writing Disorders | 2 |
| CD-856 | Med SLP II: Clinical Decision Making | 2 |
| CD-857 | Adult Neurodegenerative Syndromes Affecting Language and Cognition | 2 |
| CD-858 | Special Topics | 1-3 |
| CD-859 | Advanced Autism Seminar II | 2 |
| CD-861 | Advanced Seminar in Voice Disorders | 2 |
| CD-895 | Research Proposal in CSD | 1 |
| CD-896 | Thesis Research I | 1 |
| CD-897 | Thesis Research II | 2 |
| CD-899 | Independent Study | 1-6 |
| CH-740 | Early Intervention: Birth to Age 3 | 2 |
| CH-800 | Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Disorders | 1 |
| CH-836 | Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Counseling | 2 |
| CH-837 | Tracheotomy and Ventilation Issues in a Medical Setting | 1 |
CD 858: Special Topics Electives include:
Autism Seminar
Speech-Language Pathology in the Schools
Courses with the following prefixes can also be used towards elective requirements with advisor permissions:
| HP- | Interprofessional Courses | |
| NH- | Nursing Multidisciplinary Courses | |
| NH- | Nursing Multidisciplinary Courses | |
| PH- | Physical Therapy Multidisciplinary Courses | |