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(Student Last Name, First Name)
University at Buffalo
State University of New York
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Curriculum Plan for Master of Arts in Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Specialty Area: Speech-Language Pathology
Requirements effective September, 2008
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Student Name:
Date of Entry:
Advisor Name:
Year I Review Date:
Expected Graduation Date:
Year II Review Date:
Thesis: Yes____ No _____
School Certification: Wants____ Doesn’t Want _____ Has ______
LAST____, ASTW_____, Child Abuse Sem. _____, SAVE ___
Student has Copy of Plan______ School Practicum ______ Diagnostics course___ ,School Course___
Two education/sociology/psych courses____
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Prerequisites to Graduate Study*
( Must be taken with the numbers as listed below)
FALL
SPRING
CDS 286 Phonetics
CDS 289 General and Speech Acoustics
CDS 487 Psychoacoustic Science
CDS 290 Introduction to Audiology
CDS 288 Anatomy& Physiology/Speech
CDS 302 Language Disorders/Children
CDS 301 Child Language Development
CDS 392 Phonological Disorders
CDS 482/3 or 522 Diagnostics and Lab
CDS 480 Clinical Observation (25 hours)
CDS 484 Aural Rehabilitation**
M.A. Degree requires a minimum of 43 semester hours of CDS academic course credit – excluding Practicum
credits. Students receiving funding are able to take at most 4 classes and clinic each semester.
FALL 1
SPRING 1
R CDS 525 Clinical Processes
(1)
R CDS 670 Augmentative Comm
R CDS 564 Language Dis/Adults
(3)
R CDS 560 Voice Disorders
R CDS 528 Neural Bases of Comm.
(3)
R CDS Elective
R CDS 563 Language Disorders/Child (3)
R CDS 575 Dysphagia
R CDS502 Research Methods#
(3)
R CDS 595 Practicum I
E/R CDS 522 Diagnostics and Lab (4)***
R CDS 595 Practicum
(3)
(12 credits excluding practicum)
(13-14 credits excluding practicum)
SUMMER
CDS 595/6 Practicum I or II (3)
CDS Elective (3)
FALL 2
SPRING 2
E/R CDS 529 Aural Rehabilitation**
1 CDS Elective
R CDS 640 Motor Speech Dis
R CDS 526 Current Prof. Issues
R CDS 596 Clinical Practicum II
(9-12 credits excluding practicum)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
E/R CDS 580 Speech Path/Schools *** (3)
1 CDS Elective++
(3)
R CDS 624 Externship
(3-9)
ASHA exam passed
(3-6 credits excluding practicum)_________________________
* If student has not graduated with a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Communicative Disorders and Sciences,
then all make-up courses must be completed; Aural Rehabilitation can be taken in Fall 2 if not taken as
undergraduate course. Recommended course load is 5 for the makeup year so best to take 484 Fall 2.
# If need to take Diagnostics course for Teacher Certification, take it first semester (if makeup student, take in
prerequisite makeup Fall semester), then take Research Methods Fall 2.
** Required for ASHA – must take unless waived by equivalent; undergraduate equivalent is OK
*** Elective for M.A., but required for earning NYS Teacher of Students with Speech and Language Disabilities
initial certificate
++ Take Elective in Spring – if do not need to take CDS 580. Two courses maximum during Externship
semester
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(Student Last Name, First Name)
Other ASHA Required Courses
A. List course(s) in Biology (3credits minimum) –
Course #
Name
Credits
College/University
1.
2.
3.
B. List course(s) in Physical Science (3 credits minimum)
1.
2.
3.
C.List courses in Mathematics (3 credits minimum)
Course #
Name
Credits
College/University
1.
2.
3.
B. List courses in Behavioral or Social Sciences (3 credits minimum)
Course #
Name
Credits College/University
1.
2.
3.
D. List courses in Basic Communication and Swallowing (for 2005 certification) processes such as
Linguistics, Anatomy of Speech and Hearing Mechanism, Psychoacoustics, Speech or Hearing Sciences,
Phonetics, etc. DO NOT LIST COURSES THAT HAVE DISORDER OR PATHOLOGY AS MAIN
CONTENT. (15 credits minimum)
Course #
Name
Credits
College/University
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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