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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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.

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.

Karen O'Leary: Director of Speech and Language Clinics

Mrs. O'Leary has worked in the communication sciences and disorders department since 1990 and previously served as the undergraduate officer/advisor for the B.A. program. In addition to serving as director of the clinics, she coordinates speech-language services and programs for a grant from the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation.

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.

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).

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