The Bachelor of Arts degree in Communicative Disorders provides the students with a liberal arts foundation integrated with courses designed to provide a basic understanding of speech, language, and hearing development and communicative problems. Students pursuing deaf studies have two options: deaf education and interpreting. Students majoring in deaf education and speech-language pathology can continue their options in our graduate program. Audiology, speech-language pathology, deaf education and interpreting are concerned with many issues related to speech, hearing, and language. Professionals in these fields are devoted to providing diagnostic, rehabilitative, and educational services to children and adults with communicative challenges. The department offers course work towards the completion of a degree with an emphasis in Communicative Disorders (Audiology or Speech Language Pathology) and Deaf Studies (ASL Instruction, Deaf Education, or Sign Language Interpreting).

What You Can Earn: Audiologist - $71,209 (In our region) Speech Pathologist - $71,272 (In our region) Teacher of the deaf - $55,400 (in our region) Sign Language Interpreter - $45,000 (in our region) Interesting Classes You Might Take Introduction to Communicative Disorders Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Hearing Mechanisms Education of Exceptional Children Treatment Procedures in Communicative Disorders American Sign Language courses Deaf Literature Deaf Culture.