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. Our deaf education program gives you a broad background in bilingual-bicultural education, total communication, and cued speech philosophies along with speech, language, auditory training, deaf culture, and American Sign Language. This program includes all of the essential elements of a good education for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. The program is nationally accredited by the Council of Education of the Deaf (CED).

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.