Colleges That Offer Programs for Speech Therapy

Arizona State University

• Arizona State University in Tempe offers a speech therapy program in its Department of Speech and Hearing Science. It's a public, 4-year university with a student population of over 67,000. Its speech and hearing department focuses on research in three areas: auditory cognitive neuroscience, developmental language acquisition and habilitative/rehabilitative sciences. The university also has many research laboratories, such as an aging, memory and language laboratory, an aging and adult language disorders laboratory, a child language and early literacy laboratory, and a motor speech disorders laboratory.

  Arizona State University
  Department of Speech and Hearing Science
  10th Street and Myrtle
  Tempe, AZ 85287-0102
  (480) 965-2374
  Shs.asu.edu

University of Florida

• The University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, has a speech program in its Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. The university is a public, 4-year college with a student population of over 51,000. The university has quite a few research labs, with focuses such as auditory neuroscience, voice, swallowing research, speech fluency and language over the lifespan.

  University of Florida
  Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
  336 Dauer Hall
  Gainesville, FL 32611
  (352) 392-2113
  Slhs.phhp.ufl.edu

New York University

• New York University Steinhardt (NYU) offers a program in speech therapy in its Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, which is under the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. NYU is a private, 4-year university with a student population of over 42,000. In New York University’s Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, different research is conducted by different faculty. Some of the research done there includes age-related changes in communication and cognition, speech motor development, phonological disorders in children, aphasia and non-literal language.

  NYU Steinhardt
  Communicative Sciences and Disorders
  665 Broadway, 9th Floor,
  New York, NY 10012
  (212) 998 5230
  Steinhardt.nyu.edu

Michigan State University

• Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan, offers both a bachelor’s and master’s degree program in speech and communicative disorders in its Communicative Sciences and Disorders Department. Michigan State is a public, 4-year university with over 46,000 students. Their Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders focuses on research on speech-language acquisition, voice disorders, fluency, speech and hearing physiology, speech perception, diagnostic, and rehabilitative audiology.

  Michigan State University
  Communicative Sciences and Disorders Department
  309 Communication Arts and Sciences
  East Lansing, MI 48824
  (517) 353-3266
  Cas.msu.edu