About the M.A. Ed. in Communication Disorders Degree

The Communication Disorders Program at Eastern Kentucky University offers a Master of Arts in Education.  The M.A. Ed. in Communication Disorders is a 63 hour degree program.  In addition to academic coursework, students must complete 400 clock hours of supervised practicum prior to exiting from the graduate program.  At least 375 of these 400 hours must be in direct patient/client contact and 25 in clinical observation.  This requirement meets the number of hours specified for national certification by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and will meet or exceed the hours required for Kentucky Teacher Certification in Communication Disorders and for Kentucky Licensure in Speech-Language Pathology. 

Three indicators of our program’s effectiveness are: (1) employment rate of graduates, (2) Praxis exam pass rates , and (3) graduate program completion rates. On all three indicators, rates have been above 90% from 2006-2008 (see Table 1 below).
 

This program is accredited (2002-2010) by the ASHA Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.