Current Curriculum Plan - with Concentration in Literacy with preparation for MA DESE Reading Specialist Licensure

Total Core Required Credits: 70

(Core courses must be taken for letter grade.)

Total Elective Credits required: 2

Minimum credits required for graduation: 72

 

If students have already completed an undergraduate course in Aural Rehabilitation they must take 2 more credits of electives (4 instead of 2) to reach the total of 72 because they do not take CD 751 (Aural Rehabilitation).

 

Year 1 - Fall Term

CD-732 Speech Sound Disorders in Children [1]	3
CD-743 Spoken and Written Language Development and Disorders-Part A: Foundational Concepts and Assessment [2]	2
CD-744 Spoken and Written Language Development and Disorders-Part B: Language and Literacy Disorders in Early School Age [3]	2
CD-745 Spoken and Written Language Development and Disorders-Part C: Intervention for Language for Learning and Advanced Language [4]	2
CD-760 Seminar for Spoken and Written Language Disorders Practicum [5]	0
CD-761 Clinical Practicum - Spoken Language Disorders [6]	3
HP-818 IMPACT 1: Interprofessional Practice [7]	1

Year 1 - Spring Term

CD-722 Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of Communication and Swallowing [8]	3
CD-760 Seminar for Spoken and Written Language Disorders Practicum [5]	0
CD-762 Clinical Practicum- Reading and Writing Disorders [9]	3
CD-839 Aphasia in Adults: Assessment and Intervention [10]	3
CH-721 Foundations of Cognition [11]	2
HP-819 IMPACT 2: Interprofessional Project [12]	1

Year 1 - Summer Term

CD-770 Year 1 Clinical Outplacement Seminar [13]	0
CD-771 Year 1 Clinical Outplacement 1 [14]	3
CD-828 Teaching Language and Literacy to English Language Learners [15]	2
CD-832 Voice Disorders [16]	3
CD-833 Neuromotor Speech Disorders [17]	2
CD-840 Dysphagia in Adults & Children [18]	3
- Electives - As approved by academic advisor [19]	0

Year 2 - Fall Term

CD-721 Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech [20]	3
CD-827 Teaching Narrative and Expository Literacy [21]	2
CD-841 Fluency Disorders (Stuttering) [22]	2
CD-843 Acquired Cognitively Based Communication Disorders (Traumatic Brain Injury) [23]	2
CD-870 Year 2 Clinical Outplacement Seminar [24]	0
CD-871 Year 2 Clinical Outplacement 1 [25]	3
CH-835 Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) [26]	2

Year 2 - Spring Term

CD-724 Research Design and Statistics for CSD [27]	3
CD-751 Aural Rehabilitation: Treatment of Hearing Disorders [28]	3
CD-824B Diagnostic Methods and Clinical Processes in Reading and Writing Disorders II [29]	2
CD-870 Year 2 Clinical Outplacement Seminar [24]	0
CD-872 Year 2 Clinical Outplacement 2 [30]	3
HP-821 IMPACT 3: Interprofessional Ethics [31]	1
HP-999 Interprof Sem - 2nd Year Spr [32]	0
- Electives - As approved by academic advisor [19]	0

Year 2 - Summer Term

CD-825 Reading and Writing in the Schools [33]	2
CD-826 Leading Literacy Change [34]	1
CD-881 Year 2 CSD Reading Outplacement [35]	3
- Electives - As approved by academic advisor [19]	0

A total of 15 credits of Clinical Practicum must be completed from the following courses:

CD-761 Clinical Practicum - Spoken Language Disorders [6]	3
CD-762 Clinical Practicum- Reading and Writing Disorders [9]	3
CD-771 Year 1 Clinical Outplacement 1 [14]	3
- or [36]	0
CD-871 Year 2 Clinical Outplacement 1 [25]	3
CD-872 Year 2 Clinical Outplacement 2 [30]	3
CD-873 Year 2 Clinical Outplacement 3 [37]	3

Other electives must be completed from the following courses:

CD-735 Foundations of Medical Speech Pathology [38]	1
CD-824B Diagnostic Methods and Clinical Processes in Reading and Writing Disorders II [29]	2
CD-825 Reading and Writing in the Schools [33]	2
CD-826 Leading Literacy Change [34]	1
CD-827 Teaching Narrative and Expository Literacy [21]	2
CD-834 Alaryngeal Speech (Post-Laryngectomy) Seminar [39]	1
CD-836 Genetics in Communication Disorders [40]	1-2
CD-855 Acquired Reading and Writing Disorders [41]	2
CD-856 Med SLP II: Clinical Decision Making [42]	2
CD-857 Adult Neurodegenerative Syndromes Affecting Language and Cognition [43]	2
CD-858 Special Topics [44]	1-3
CD-859 Advanced Autism Seminar II [45]	2
CD-861 Advanced Seminar in Voice Disorders [46]	2
CD-895 Research Proposal in CSD [47]	1
CD-896 Thesis Research I [48]	1
CD-897 Thesis Research II [49]	2
CD-899 Independent Study [50]	1-6
CH-740 Early Intervention: Birth to Age 3 [51]	2
CH-800 Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Disorders [52]	1
CH-836 Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Counseling [53]	2
CH-837 Tracheotomy and Ventilation Issues in a Medical Setting [54]	1

Courses with the following prefixes can also be used towards elective requirements with advisor permissions:

HP- Interprofessional Courses [55]	0
NH- Nursing Multidisciplinary Courses [56]	0
NH- Nursing Multidisciplinary Courses [57]	0
PH- Physical Therapy Multidisciplinary Courses [58]	0