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The mission of the Department is to provide state-of-the-art teaching, research, and clinical services in the areas of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.

Our department is recognized as one of the top-ranked Graduate Programs by U.S. News and World Report (America's Best Graduate Schools 2012). Our speech-language pathology program is ranked 17th and our audiology program is ranked 21st. Both programs are in the top 10% of graduate programs in the discipline nationwide.

One hundred percent of our graduate students have passed the Praxis exam on the first try. Our retention and graduation rates for the past three years were 90%. The employment/job placement rate for our graduate students is 100%.

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News

  • Congratulations to Professors Carol Espy-Wilson and Sandra Gordon-Salant, Professors Yi Ting Huang and Meredith Rowe, and Professors Naomi Feldman and Rochelle Newman! Each pair received grant funding in the recent campus ADVANCE competition.
  • Congratulations to Sandra Gordon-Salant, who has been named BSOS ADVANCE Professor for the coming year!
  • Congratulations to HESP Juniors Lindsay Roberts and Maria Payne for their election into Phi Beta Kappa for this year!!!
  • Congratulations to Matt Winn (recent Ph.D. graduate of the CAUD program), Monita Chatterjee and Bill Idsardi (Linguistics) whose recent paper was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, which is the premier journal in the discipline! The citation is below:

    Winn, M.B., Chatterjee, M., & Idsardi, W.J. (2012).  The use of acoustic cues for phonetic identification: Effects of spectral degradation and electric hearing.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131 , 1465-1479.
  • Congratulations to Matt Winn who successfully defended his PhD dissertation!
  • Congratulations to Viral Tejani who has won a $5000 scholarship from ASHA!
  • Conratulations to Matt Winn who has been invited to present his dissertation work in a special session of the Fall Acoustical Society meeting!
  • Congratulations to Vivian for being recognized for her media work discussing stuttering this past year!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Monita Chatterjee who was recently awarded a two-year NIH grant (R21 DC011905) titled "Voice pitch processing by normally hearing and cochlear implanted children".
  • Congratulations to Pei-tzu Tsai who successfully defended her dissertation on semantic and phonological processing in people who stutter. We wish her success as she travels to San Jose State University to start her new life as an Assistant Professor!
  • Congratulations to Viral Tejani (AuD) who won a $1000 Roger Ruth Memorial Scholarship from the American Academy of Audiology Foundation!
  • Welcome to two new faculty members who will join the Hearing and Speech Department in August 2011.

    Matthew Goupell, Ph.D, from University of Wisconsin, Waisman Center, Madison Wisconsin. His current research endeavor is entitled: “Speech understanding and signal detection in noise in bilateral cochlear implants”.

    Yi Ting Huang, Ph.D. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her current research endeavor is entitled: “Behavioral and neural study of pragmatic inference: discourse and lexical effects”.
  • Congratulations to our Commencement award winners Michelle Cass, Emily Mineweaser, Keena James Seward, and Emily Callanan!
  • Congratulations to Vidda Moussavi, who was just awarded the J. Robert Dorfman prize for outstanding Undergraduate Research!
  • Congratulations to Justine Dombroski, a HESP Junior, who was just named a Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar !

  • Congratulations to Ph.D. Student Giovanna Morini, who was just awarded a prestigious NSF EAPSI Fellowship for the summer of 2011! EAPSI (East Asia & Pacific Summer Institutes) provides US graduate students in science and engineering with the opportunity to conduct research overseas; Giovanna will be spending 8 weeks in Singapore, working in the lab of Dr. Leher Singh.

  • Congratulations to Danielle Zion (AuD/PhD) and Viral Tejani (AuD), both of whom won travel awards to attend the midwinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology in February 2011!

  • Congratulations to Dr. Sandra Gordon-Salant on being elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America!!

  • Many of our students presented their research at the recent ASHA convention. Congratulations to current students Danielle Lindenger (undergraduate), Kerry McColgan & Jenesia McCammon (MA), and Sally Galena, Giovanna Morini, Peitzu Tsai & Arifi Waked (PhD), and to recent graduates Anna Synnesvedt, Mara Steinberg, Sarah Michael, and Jaclyn Woodyatt! Click here to see the photos.

Affiliations

The Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences has affiliations with other departments on campus. Several of our faculty are also members of these departments.
The Department also has affiliations with other off-campus departments and organizations.

The University of Maryland belongs to the Consortium of Universities of the Metropolitan Washington Area, which includes The George Washington University, Gallaudet, University of the District of Columbia, American University, Georgetown University and Howard University. This affiliation allows eligible undergraduate and graduate students to enroll in classes at other participating area universities and have the credit count towards their degrees. Information on eligibility and procedures are available on Testudo.

Accreditation/Compliance

The University of Maryland graduate programs in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology are accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Public comment can be addressed to the Council at the link above or by mail at 2200 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850-3289 .

The University of Maryland complies with all applicable Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (to the Higher Education Act of 1965), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, and all amendments to the foregoing.

The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity institution with respect to both education and employment. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or handicap in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activities as required by federal (Title VI, Title IX, Section 504) and state laws and regulations. Inquiries regarding compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Title IX of the 1972 Educational amendments, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, or related legal requirements should be directed to: Executive Director, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, 1130 Shriver Laboratory, East Wing, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 (Telephone: 301-405-2842).

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