Communication Sciences and Disorders Department College of Communication The University of Texas at Austin About the Department Speech and Hearing Center Contact Us CSD Home

Speech/Language Pathology students obtain knowledge of normal and disordered aspects of speech, language, and hearing and engage in coursework pertaining to the evaluation and treatment of speech and language disorders. Upon graduation from our department, students are eligible to work as licensed assistants in the State of Texas if and when they receive a minimum of 25 hours of fully supervised direct client contact. However, a student must go on to graduate work in an accredited program such as ours in order to obtain the Certification of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech/Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Once certified, SLPs can work independently in settings such as preschools, public schools, hospitals, free-standing clinics, and nursing homes. These clinicians may work with children and adults who experience difficulty in the following areas, just to name a few: articulating the sounds of the language, putting words together in a sentence, remembering names of objects following a stroke, swallowing without choking, or compensating for the loss of voice following surgical removal of the larynx.