博士 该计划旨在为具有或没有临床背景，语音，语言或听力科学和/或障碍的研究生提供在传播科学和/或沟通障碍专业领域的高级指导学习。该计划强调完善批判性思维技能，以科学地回应传播科学与疾病领域中许多未解决的问题。为此，学生将体验一个令人兴奋的知识环境，其中进行研究的能力被认为是必不可少的技能。该计划的组成部分包括研究范围内外的博士课程，包括研究工具的课程，例如：仪器和测量方法，设计和进行临床试验，为联邦研究支持提供资助，发展研究事业的策略，统计方法，实验研究设计，定量和定性方法以及研究伦理。此外，博士级别的研
The Ph.D. program is designed to provide graduate students, either with or without clinical backgrounds in speech, language or hearing sciences and/or disorders with advanced mentored study in specialized areas of communication sciences and/or communication disorders. The program emphasizes the refinement of critical thinking skills to scientifically respond to the many unanswered questions within the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. To this end, students will experience a stimulating intellectual environment where the ability to conduct research is considered an essential skill. Program Components include doctoral level seminars both within and outside the area of study include courses on research tools such as: instrumentation and methods of measurement, designing and conducting clinical trials, writing grants for federal research support, strategies for developing a research career, statistical methods, experimental research design, quantitative and qualitative methods, and research ethics. In addition, doctoral level seminars are in content areas such as: experimental phonetics, neurolinguistics, integration of upper airway systems and other topics of interest.<br>Total: 57 Credit Hours