Biosciences Program Faculty performing Speech & Hearing Science research

The Speech & Hearing Science Ph.D. program provides flexible, comprehensive training for the scholar-researcher interested in communication processes and their disorders. Students with diverse backgrounds in the natural and behavioral sciences are encouraged to apply and develop their skills in an atmosphere of interdisciplinary research.

The Speech & Hearing program reflects the broad interest of its multidisciplinary faculty: speech, language, voice, hearing, engineering, physiology, physics, psychology, linguistics, and bioengineering. The purpose of the doctoral program is to provide the integrated knowledge necessary for a productive career in speech, language, voice, or hearing science and related areas.

Students with special interests, goals or backgrounds are encouraged to develop individualized programs of study. There are no required courses for the Ph.D.; rather,a program of study is developed by each student in consultation with a faculty committee.