• 专业概况
• 所属院系
• 中国学生入学要求
• 课程信息

专业概况

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The Communication Disorders and Sciences (CDS) program specializes in the area of speech-language pathology. Speech-language pathologists are professionals educated in the study of human communication, its development, and its disorders. By evaluating the speech, language, cognitive-communication, and swallowing skills of children and adults, the speech-language pathologist determines what communication problems exist and the best way to treat them. Students in the CDS program study normal communication as well as procedures for assessment and intervention of persons with communication disorders.

What is Communication Disorders and Sciences (CDS), speech-language pathology, and audiology?

CDS is a program that trains speech-language pathologists and audiologists. The CDS program offers both bachelor's and master's of science degrees, during which classroom instruction is integrated with practical experience. The undergraduate program is broad in scope and provides the necessary pre-professional background for the academic, clinical and research aspects of the master's level. Professionals in these disciplines are concerned with evaluation, treatment and research in human communication as well as disorders of human communication. Unfortunately, millions of persons in the U.S. have communication disorders.

Those who have disorders of speech, language, voice, and fluency (for example, stuttering) may be treated by speech-language pathologists. If you want to be a speech-language pathologist, then you should plan to attend our undergraduate and graduate program. People who have hearing disorders may be treated by audiologists. If you want to be an audiologist you can attend our undergraduate program, but then you will need to plan to go elsewhere for your advanced degree because there is no graduate program in audiology at SIUC.

Scope of Practice for Speech-Language Pathologists

Speech: articulation, voice, resonance, fluency (stuttering), non-speech communication

Language: comprehension and expression in oral, written, graphic, and manual modalities

Cognitive Aspects of Communication: attention, memory, problem solving

Swallowing

Persons with a wide variety of diseases/disorders: hearing impairment, autism, cerebral palsy, cognitive impairment (dementia), traumatic brain injury, cancer, laryngectomy, Down syndrome, cleft palate, learning disabilities, degenerative diseases (e.g., Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), Parkinson's), surgical trauma, infections (e.g., AIDS), inflammatory processes (e.g., encephalitis, meningitis), Guillian-Barre, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Rett syndrome.

Scope of Practice for Audiologists

Audiologists are concerned with the non-medical management of the auditory and balance systems. They specialize in the study of: Normal and impaired hearing; Prevention of hearing loss; Identification and assessment of hearing and balance problems; Rehabilitation of persons with hearing and balance disorders; Diagnosis of auditor processing disorders.

所属院系

进入哪个院系学习？ School of Health Sciences

中国学生入学要求

为来自中国的学生设计 Students must have completed a high school or equivalent. Academic Requirements (grade point averages are on a 4.0 scale and are calculated by SIU): 26 credits or more at another college/university - submit college/university transcripts showing a GPA of 2.0 or greater on all coursework; 0-25 credits at another college/university - submit high school AND university/college transcripts showing 2.0 GPA on all coursework; 5 Passes on the GCE O or A level exams (under the Cambridge/ed excel model). English Language Requirement: TOEFL - 68 on the internet-based test; TOEFL - 520 on the paper-based test; ITEP - 4.0 (academic plus only); IELTS - 6.0.

课程信息

学制：全日制(4 年)

学费：US$26,000.00 (¥ 168,321) /年

开学时间：2022八月16日, 2022十二月13日, 2022一月10日

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留学地点：School of Health SciencesApplied Sciences and Arts, Mail Code 6615,CARBONDALE,Illinois,62901, United States