Communicative disorders and speech pathology

spring162
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:13 +0000

Hi there, My D is going to UA in the fall and majoring in Communication Disorders. When we visited a few weeks ago, Allison set us up to meet a Prof in the department. I asked him the question of how many of their undergrads get accepted into Masters programs. He didnt have the figures on that for me but suggested that a student who kept performing as my D did in HS would have no problem being accepted somewhere. He mentioned that Univ. of Iowa is the top of the top for Speech Path masters programs and they are a very exclusive. He stated it is hard to get in there if you do not go to undergrad there. He did say that all the grads of the UA masters program did find jobs.
He mentioned quite often that Communication disorders is an exploding major at UA and he hopes in the future the department can hire more teachers to easy the size of the basic CD classes. Right now, approx 60 kids in each class. I wasnt thrilled about that but it didnt phase my kiddo in the least.
She cant wait to start. Roll tide!