Jul 30, 2024  
2024-2025 University Catalog 
    
2024-2025 University Catalog

Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (Graduate)


Website URL:

https://hhs.purdue.edu/graduate-students/programs/?department=speech-language-and-hearing-sciences

Department/School Head:

Jennifer Simpson (interim)

Academic Programs:

Master’s, Au.D., and Ph.D. Programs

The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences emphasizes the study of human communication sciences and disorders. All aspects of communication - including speech, language, and hearing - as well as essential functions of swallowing and balance,  are explored through all stages of the lifespan. The Department provides excellence in education across undergraduate, graduate professional (MS-SLP and AuD), and research programs (Ph.D.).”

  • Ph.D. Program
  • Au.D. Program
  • MS-SLP Program
  • Dual Track Degree Programs

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

  • Auditory Perception, Neural Plasticity, and Sensory Aids
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication
  • Aural Rehabilitation for Children and Adults
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to Hearing, Language Processing, and Communicative Disorders: Applications of Functional Brain Imaging and Evidence from Brain-Damaged Individuals
  • Language Structure, Development, and Disorders: Single Language and Crosslinguistic Studies
  • Linguistics Applied to Communicative Sciences and Disorders
  • Sign Language Linguistics
  • Speech and Voice Physiology
  • Speech Perception
  • Speech Production, Development, and Disorders: A Lifespan Perspective
  • Swallowing Physiology and Swallowing Disorders

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Alexander L. Francis
Michelle Gutmann
Michael Heinz
David Kemmerer
Ravi Krishnan
Laurence B. Leonard
Chenell Loudermill
Georgia Malandraki
Jennifer Simpson
Preeti Sivasankar
Beth Strickland
Dawn Wetzel
Ronnie Wilbur
Shannon Van Hyfte

Associate Professor

Joshua Alexander
Jaime Bauer Malandraki
Arielle Borovsky
Françoise Brosseau-Lapré
Natalya Kaganovich
Brandon Keehn
Jiyeon Lee
Christi Masters

Assistant Professor

Anne Gritt
Jillian Hubertz
Kwang Kim
Windi Krok
Lydia Kruse
Arianna LaCroix
Zachary La Fratta
Malinda McPherson
Melissa Newell
Allison Schaser
Maureen Shader

Emeritus Faculty

Barb Cicholski
David Ertmer
Macalyne Fristoe
Jackson T. Gandour
Luella Glick
Lisa Goffman
David Goldstein
Hope Gulker
Keith Kluender
Lata Krishnan
Jeanette Leonard
Claudia Mournout
William Murphy
Robert Novak
Mary Lou Poole
Anne Smith
David Snow  
Barbara Solomon
Christine Weber

Programs

    DoctoralMaster’s

    Courses

      Speech, Language and Hearing Science