Degree Requirements
Academic coursework (prerequisite courses may be necessary for those without an undergraduate speech pathology degree)
Clinical Practicum and Externship
Clinical Practicum at ESU Speech and Hearing Center: Students will be enrolled in SPPA 550, Advanced Clinical Practicum, (in the ESU Speech and Hearing Center) for three semesters, typically during their second through fourth semesters includes a summer). Student clinicians work with clinical supervisors to set a schedule for management of clients in the clinic. Clinical education is individualized to the needs of the student clinicians.
Clinical Externship (off campus): All students will complete two full time semester of SPPA 586, Advanced Clinical Externship, at two different off-campus sites, typically in the last semesters of enrollment. A variety of clinical externship sites are available off-campus; these are arranged by the departmental externship coordinator. Students may suggest off campus externship sites at which they would like to work, but all practicum sites must be arranged and administered through the department.
Each student will be required to meet the clinical education requirements for the ASHA CCC-SLP.
The ASHA CCC-SLP clinical education requirements may be met through a combination of undergraduate and clinical practicum work. Students who wish to receive credit for undergraduate clinical practicum must provide the graduate coordinator with adequate documentation of the undergraduate practicum work. Students must complete 25 hours of clinical observations, and 375 hours of clinical management practicum. At least 325 of the minimum 375 clinical practicum hours must be acquired at the graduate level (while a graduate student in the program).
Portfolio
Students are required to prepare a portfolio of learning outcomes for faculty review
during their last semester of enrollment.
Progress Towards Degree
Students are accepted into the graduate program as either Full Time or Part Time students.
- The only distinction between the two is that part time students enroll in fewer credits per semester than full time students, usually due to their other commitments.
- Otherwise, the two groups are the same. The admission standards, degree requirements, and all academic policies and regulations are the same.
- Full Time students are expected to complete 4 academic semesters and two summer terms (Fall, Spring, Summer, Fall, Spring).
- Part Time students will generally take longer to complete the degree, but are expected to make regular and consistent progress.
- Part Time students are subject to the ESU Graduate School policy of completion of the degree program within 6 years of initial enrollment.
- Part Time students are expected to enroll for as many credits as feasible, usually 6 credits per semester in the Fall and Spring, and close to a full load in Summers if possible.
- Part Time students may, upon written request to the Graduate Coordinator, take more than 6 credits per semester in the Fall or Spring semesters, subject to availability of seats for courses, and subject to caseloads and site availability for practicum.
The department no longer guarantees that part-timers will be able to complete their degree by attending only evening and summer classes.
Transfer Credits
Students will be allowed to transfer up to 6 graduate semester hours into their plan of study in the program from other ASHA accredited training programs, as long as the courses correspond to ESU degree requirements, as judged by the ESU program faculty, and have not been used to satisfy degree requirements elsewhere.
The transferred credits must comply with the ESU Graduate School policy on transfer credits.
Contact Us
Contact Information
- Campus Address
- Monroe Hall
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3247
- Fax:
- (570) 422-3850 (Fax)
- Title of Department Leader
- Department Chair
- Name
- Rachel Wolf
- E:
- rewolf@esu.edu
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3929
