The Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department offers an undergraduate program that emphasizes human communication processes in a multicultural society. Baccalaureate graduates are able to experience success in their chosen careers, professions or graduate studies.
The department offers a bachelor of science degree, a minor, and a post-baccalaureate program in communication disorders.
Speech-Language Pathologists
Help those who stutter to increase their fluency; help people who have had strokes or experienced brain trauma to regain lost language and speech; help children and adolescents who have language disorders to understand and give directions, ask and answer questions, convey ideas, improve the language skills that lead to better academic performance; counsel individuals and families to understand and deal with speech and language disorders. The minimum qualifications to practice as a speech-language pathologist is the master's degree earned from an institution accredited by the Council of Academic Accreditation of the American Speech-Language-and-Hearing Association.
Audiologists
Measure hearing ability, identify hearing disorders, provide rehabilitative services, assess amplification devices and instruct in their care, provide training in speechreading, and serve as consultants to government and industry on issues concerning environmental, noise-induced hearing loss.
Speech-Language, and Hearing Scientists
Investigate the complex processes underlying human communication, explore the impact of psychological, social, and psychophysiological, communication; they collaborate with experts in other fields to develop new approaches to treating those with speech, language, and hearing disorders.
Facilities include the NMU Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic which serves the clinical needs of the university and community and provides pre-professional clinical practice experience to students in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.