A degree in CSD

Students graduating from the communication sciences will be prepared to work with speech-language and hearing-disabled children and adults in a variety of settings, including public schools, hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers and private practice.

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Jinsheng Zhang: Curing ringing in the ears

Professor Zhang's tinnitus research career started in 1997, with interests encompassing neural mechanisms underlying noise- and blast-induced tinnitus and mild traumatic brain injury and their neuromodulation. His eventual goal is, through working with engineers and clinicians, to develop effective treatments for tinnitus (noise in the ear).

Sarah Silver: Speaking up for Detroit

As Sarah Silver was wrapping up her bachelor's in East Lansing, she had her eye on heading out of state for her communication sciences and disorders graduate degree. She was accepted by two of her top choices but opted to stay in Michigan after realizing her best choice was just a short drive from home.

Shelly Jo Kraft: Diagnostics and treatment of developmental stuttering specialist

Dr. Kraft is a trained geneticist in human disease and epidemiology and is currently funded by the NIH to study genes contributing to risk for stuttering.

Advisor Spotlight: Meet comm sci/African American studies/urban studies advisor Faith Doyle

Advisor Faith Doyle overlooks two departments within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Doyle has a B.A. in Education and says that her major taught her skills that she needed to connect with students and to help guide them through their academic career.

Li Hsieh: Multicultural and multilingual speech communications

Dr. Hsieh investigates the neural networks that subserve language, memory, and other cognitive subsystems in both normal and disordered populations. Through comparisons among speakers of tonal and non-tonal language (such as Chinese and English), she investigates the universal and language-specific mechanisms regarding their linguistic experiences.

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A group of graduates walk during the traditional commencement march, a few proudly displaying 'First Generation' stolls on their graduation regalia.

Wayne State celebrates first-generation students, social mobility

CSD Newsletter Summer 2024

ASHA voices: Stuttering and stigma with SLP Derek Daniels

CSD faculty spring 2024 highlights

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CLAS Undergraduate Research Symposium on Nov. 22, 2024 at 2 p.m. 2 p.m.
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Audiology Clinic